Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+FCC3 Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form

U+FCC3 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FB50 to U+FDFF Arabic Presentation Forms-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.

The glyph is an initial composition of the glyphs Arabic Letter Qaf, Arabic Letter Meem. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+FCC3 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	64707
UTF-8	EF B3 83
UTF-16	FC C3
UTF-32	00 00 FC C3
URL-Quoted	%EF%B3%83
HTML hex reference	ﳃ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ï³ƒ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	84 30 DF 33

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Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	ARABIC LIGATURE QAF WITH MEEM INITIAL FORM
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category (gc)	Other Letter
Script (sc)	Arabic
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Arabic Letter
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	initial
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Arabic Letter Qaf Arabic Letter Meem
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Case Folding (cf)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Arabic Letter Qaf Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Arabic Letter Qaf Arabic Letter Meem
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✔
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R