Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+FD78 Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form

U+FD78 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 a final composition of the glyphs Arabic Letter Ain, Arabic Letter Meem, Arabic Letter Alef Maksura. 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+FD78 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	64888
UTF-8	EF B5 B8
UTF-16	FD 78
UTF-32	00 00 FD 78
URL-Quoted	%EF%B5%B8
HTML hex reference	ﵸ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ïµ¸

Related Characters

Confusables

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	ARABIC LIGATURE AIN WITH MEEM WITH ALEF MAKSURA FINAL 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)	final
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Arabic Letter Ain Arabic Letter Meem Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
Case Folding (cf)	Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final 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 Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final 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)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Arabic Letter Ain Arabic Letter Meem Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Arabic Letter Ain Arabic Letter Meem Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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 Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final 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 Ain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R