U+FCE7 "ﳧ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCE7 "ﳧ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem Medial Form is a special typographic glyph used in Arabic script calligraphy and text, representing a ligature that combines the letter seen (س) and the letter meem (م) in their medial forms, meaning they are joined together as they would appear in the middle of a word for a more compact and aesthetically pleasing rendering. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a part of Unicode designed to support complex text layout and variant shaping for historical and stylistic purposes. It is not typically used in modern standard Arabic keyboards or everyday digital communication but may appear in advanced typesetting, Quranic texts, or classic manuscripts where such ligatures maintain traditional calligraphic elegance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen 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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳧ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce7

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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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