U+FCE5 "ﳥ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FCE5 "ﳥ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Meem Medial Form is a typographic ligature from the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to represent the combination of the Arabic letters theh (ث) and meem (م) in their medial forms within a connected text. This character is primarily used for compatibility with older or legacy font systems that employed such ligatures for improved calligraphic appearance or text rendering, rather than for standard modern Arabic encoding. Its function is to simplify the display of these two letters when they appear together in the middle of a word, allowing them to be shown as a single unified glyph for aesthetic or technical reasons.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Theh 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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce5

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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "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