U+FD9C "ﶜ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD9C "ﶜ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Final Form is a typographic representation found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, specifically designed for calligraphic or traditional text layout where the letters Yeh (ي), Meem (م), and a second Meem (م) are combined into a single glyph positioned at the end of a word. This ligature serves to streamline written Arabic by merging these consecutive characters into a cohesive visual unit, often used in Quranic or classic manuscripts to enhance readability and aesthetic flow. It represents a specific final-form context, meaning it only appears when these letters occur in a word’s terminal position, and its encoding supports advanced text rendering in specialized software that respects complex Arabic script rules.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD9C
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﶜ
HTML Hex Encoding ﶜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB6 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD9C
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd9c

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