U+FD3A "ﴺ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character
U+FD3A "ﴺ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem Medial Form is a typographic presentation form found in the Arabic script blocks of Unicode, representing a specific ligature where the Arabic letter Tah (ط) and the letter Meem (م) are joined together in a medial position within a word. It is part of a set of Arabic presentation forms designed primarily for compatibility with older text processing systems and for use in contexts where precise calligraphic shaping is required, such as in Quranic or classical Arabic texts. Unlike standard Arabic characters that adjust their shapes automatically based on surrounding letters, this ligature codepoint encodes the combined glyph as a single static unit. Its usage is generally discouraged in modern Unicode text to favor dynamic shaping and maintaining character semantics, but it remains available for rendering legacy content or specialized typographic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD3A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Tah 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 | "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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd3a |
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 |