U+FCE9 "ﳩ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FCE9 "ﳩ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Medial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, specifically representing the combined medial form of the letters "sheen" (ش) and "meem" (م) when they appear together within a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which is designed to provide precomposed glyphs for complex text rendering in older or more traditional Arabic typography systems. Its primary purpose is to enhance readability and visual harmony in printed or digital Arabic text by merging the two characters into a single, continuous shape, though it is generally not used in modern Unicode encoding for live text, as contextual shaping algorithms now handle such ligatures automatically.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen 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	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce9

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	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "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