U+FCEE "ﳮ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCEE "ﳮ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem Medial Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script to represent the combined medial form of the letters noon and meem, which appear as a single connected shape within a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is designed for compatibility with legacy text encoding systems where such ligatures were common, though its use in modern plain text is generally discouraged in favor of standard Unicode encoding. Its medial form indicates that it is positioned between other characters in a word, streamlining the visual flow of Arabic calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCEE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCEE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcee |
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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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 |