U+FDC1 "ﷁ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Meem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDC1 "ﷁ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Meem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature in the Arabic script, representing a combination of the letters feh (ف), meem (م), and yeh (ي) joined together in a specific final form as a single glyph. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed for compatibility with older legacy text encoding systems rather than for modern electronic text, and it is primarily used in calligraphic or historical contexts to faithfully reproduce the connected appearance of these three letters appearing at the end of a word.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDC1
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Feh with Meem with Yeh 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
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﷁ
HTML Hex Encoding ﷁ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB7 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDC1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDC1
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdc1

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
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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