U+FEE3 "ﻣ" Arabic Letter Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEE3 "ﻣ" Arabic Letter Meem Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Meem, specifically designed to connect from the right side to the following letter within a word, as part of the Arabic script’s context-sensitive shaping system. This character appears in the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is primarily intended for legacy text processing or specialized rendering contexts, as modern Unicode fonts automatically generate this initial form from the base letter Meem (U+0645) based on its position in a word. The initial form of Meem is characterized by a compact, rounded body with a short, forward-extending tail that prepares it for a right-to-left cursive connection, distinguishing it from the isolated, final, or medial variants.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEE3
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Meem Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Initial Arabic Meem
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Initial
Decomposition Mapping "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻣ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻣ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEE3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEE3
C/C++/Java Escape \ufee3

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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "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