U+FCF0 "ﳰ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FCF0 "ﳰ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Medial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, where the letters "Yeh" (ي) and "Meem" (م) are merged into a single glyph in their medial (middle-of-word) positions. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed to replicate calligraphic styles or complex text layouts for better display on digital systems. It is not a standard character for modern text entry but is rather intended for use in legacy systems, specialized fonts, or contexts where precise calligraphic rendering is required, and its usage is largely historical or stylistic rather than foundational to the Arabic alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCF0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Yeh 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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCF0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCF0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcf0

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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "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