U+FD3B "ﴻ" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD3B "ﴻ" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Medial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, representing a special combined form of the letter zah (ظ) and meem (م) in their medial positions within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes complex ligatures designed for legacy or decorative text rendering rather than for modern standard text encoding. It appears in historical or stylistic contexts, such as in Quranic manuscripts or calligraphic works, where the two letters are joined for visual harmony or space efficiency. The ligature is not intended for general-purpose digital text and may not render correctly in all fonts, but it serves as an important artifact of traditional Arabic typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD3B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Zah 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	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴻ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴻ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD3B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD3B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd3b

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	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "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