U+FCE3 "ﳣ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCE3 "ﳣ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Medial Form is a presentation form character used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a ligature of the letters "teh" (ت) and "meem" (م) combined in their medial shapes as they would appear when connected within a word. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which is designed to encode contextual positional variants and ligatures for text rendering, particularly in legacy systems and for compatibility with older standards. It is primarily employed in typography and digital text processing to ensure correct visual joining of these two characters, where the medial shape of "teh" connects directly to the medial or initial shape of "meem," forming a compact glyph that reflects conventional Arabic calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE3
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳣ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce3

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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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