U+FCED "ﳭ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FCED "ﳭ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Medial Form is a typographic variant used in Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting, representing the joined medial form of the letters lam (ل) and meem (م) as a single ligature. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to handle contextual shaping and stylistic alternates for Arabic text, particularly in legacy systems or high-end typesetting. Its use ensures that the two characters appear as a cohesive, gracefully connected glyph when they occur together in the middle of a word, following the cursive flow of Arabic writing and helping maintain visual harmony in printed or displayed Arabic text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCED
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam 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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCED
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCED
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufced

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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "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