U+FD33 "ﴳ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FD33 "ﴳ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters Tah and Meem in their initial forms. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures designed to support complex text layout in traditional Arabic calligraphy and typesetting. It appears as a single glyph at the beginning of a word, where the Tah and Meem are joined together to improve visual harmony and reading efficiency. In modern digital contexts, such ligatures are often automatically generated by font engines, but U+FD33 provides a precomposed option for precise control in legacy or specialized applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD33
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Tah 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	"ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴳ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴳ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD33
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD33
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd33

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter