U+FC9A "ﲚ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FC9A "ﲚ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters Yeh with Hamza Above and Meem in their initial (word-beginning) form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed to support complex calligraphic typesetting rather than standard textual encoding. Its primary function is to ensure proper visual rendering in contexts where joined letters form a single glyph, preserving the distinctive curved connection between the initial meem and the following ligature components. While rarely required in modern digital communication due to dynamic shaping algorithms in fonts, U+FC9A remains relevant for legacy systems and specialized typographic applications that rely on fixed glyph shapes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC9A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc9a |