U+FD52 "ﵒ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD52 "ﵒ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script to represent a complex consonant cluster, specifically the combination of the letters teh (ت), hah (ح), and jeem (ج) when they appear at the beginning of a word or syllable. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support traditional typesetting by merging multiple characters into a single visual unit for improved calligraphy and readability. It is primarily employed in historical or specialized Arabic texts, such as classical Quranic manuscripts or formal calligraphic works, and is not typically used in modern digital Arabic writing, where separate characters are standardized instead.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD52 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah with Jeem 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 | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD52 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd52 |