U+FCE1 "ﳡ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FCE1 "ﳡ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Medial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Persian and Arabic writing systems, specifically designed for the medial position within a word where the letters Beh (ب) and Meem (م) are joined together in a cursive form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, which contains a collection of contextual ligatures that represent common calligraphic or typographic connections that occur when certain letters are combined in the middle of a word. It is important to note that this ligature is a presentation form and is not typically used for plain text storage; instead, it is often employed in rendering or legacy text handling to achieve a specific visual appearance that matches traditional handwriting or printed styles.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Medial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter