U+FD1D "ﴝ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﴝ
U+FD1D "ﴝ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letter Jeem (ج) and the letter Alef Maksura (ى) in their final (end-of-word) forms. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support legacy text rendering and calligraphic styles, where certain letter pairs are merged into a single glyph for aesthetic or practical reasons. It is used primarily in formal or decorative Arabic writing, such as in religious texts or traditional manuscripts, rather than in modern digital communication, and it encodes a visual shortcut to maintain the cursive flow of handwritten Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD1D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD1D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd1d |