U+FCDF "ﳟ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character
U+FCDF "ﳟ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Medial Form is a presentation form glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically a ligature that combines the letters Yeh with Hamza Above and Meem in their medial (word-internal) form to create a single typographic unit for improved calligraphic rendering. This character belongs to the Unicode block "Arabic Presentation Forms-A," which encompasses contextual glyph shapes designed for legacy text processing and visual representation, rather than for standard text interchange. It is primarily employed in certain software and fonts to replicate the complex, cursive appearance of Arabic writing where two characters are joined together in a ligature, such as in the middle of a word. While modern Unicode usage typically prefers using separate dynamic characters with proper shaping engines, U+FCDF remains available for compatibility with older systems that rely on precomposed ligatures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCDF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Medial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| 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 0xB3 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCDF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcdf |