U+FC1B "" Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FC1B "" Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script to represent the ligature formed by the letters Khah (خ) and Meem (م) joined together in their isolated forms. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was encoded primarily to support legacy text rendering and specific calligraphic styles, rather than modern plain text. It visually prints as a single connected shape, where the Khah character connects directly to the following Meem, creating a compact and stylized representation often found in historical or decorative contexts. This ligature facilitates accurate display of certain traditional Arabic texts without relying on complex shaping engines for each letter pair.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﰛ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﰛ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB0 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFC1B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FC1B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufc1b