U+FD7C "ﵼ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD7C "ﵼ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined cursive sequence of the letters feh (ف), khah (خ), and meem (م) as they appear in their final positional form at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to facilitate the reproduction of historical and calligraphic text layouts where such ligatures are common, rather than for general modern digital text. Its purpose is to maintain the aesthetic and conventional flow of Arabic calligraphy by combining these three distinct characters into a single, connected glyph.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD7C
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Final Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Final
Decomposition Mapping "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵼ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵼ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD7C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD7C
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd7c

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 "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"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