U+FB17 "ﬗ" Armenian Small Ligature Men Xeh Unicode Character
U+FB17 "ﬗ" Armenian Small Ligature Men Xeh is a typographic ligature in the Armenian script that combines the letters Men (Մ) and Xeh (Խ) into a single visual glyph, intended for use in certain classical or calligraphic contexts where such combinations streamline or embellish text. As part of the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, this character supports the traditional practice of merging adjacent letters in Armenian handwriting or print, with a specific numeric reference in Unicode for representation in digital environments. Its usage is primarily historical or stylistic, appearing in older manuscripts or formal documents rather than modern standard writing, and it requires appropriate font support to render correctly across different systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB17 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Ligature Men Xeh |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "մ" U+0574 Armenian Small Letter Men "խ" U+056D Armenian Small Letter Xeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb17 |