U+FEE4 "ﻤ" Arabic Letter Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEE4 "ﻤ" Arabic Letter Meem Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter meem used specifically when it appears in the middle of a word, connecting to both the preceding and following letters. Unlike the isolated or final forms of meem, this medial variant features a distinctive shape with a short horizontal stroke that links to the next character and an upward curving tail that connects back to the previous letter. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, designed to support complex text layout and typography in Arabic script, where letters change form based on their position within a word. This character ensures proper cursive rendering in digital text, helping maintain the natural flow of Arabic writing where most letters join together when written continuously.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEE4
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Meem Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Medial Arabic Meem
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Medial
Decomposition Mapping "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻤ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻤ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEE4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEE4
C/C++/Java Escape \ufee4

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