U+FCCE "" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FCCE "ﳎ" Arabic Ligeme Meem with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, representing the combination of the letters Meem (م) and Jeem (ج) when they appear together at the beginning of a word. This ligature is designed for visual coherence in Arabic calligraphy and text rendering, where two or more characters are merged into a single glyph to improve aesthetics and readability. It is categorized as a presentation form, specifically an initial form, meaning it only occurs when these letters are in the initial position of a word and are joined seamlessly. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A range, used primarily in legacy systems or specialized typography to encode ligatures that are not typically required in modern Unicode text encoded with more standard character sequences.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﳎ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﳎ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB3 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFCCE
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FCCE
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufcce