U+FD53 "ﵓ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD53 "ﵓ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature representing a specific combination of the Arabic letters teh (ت), hah (ح), and meem (م) in their initial forms, where they are joined together as a single visual glyph for calligraphic or typesetting purposes. This character is found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block of the Unicode standard, which contains specialized ligatures and variant forms used to replicate traditional manuscript styles in digital text. It is primarily employed in contexts requiring precise orthography, such as religious texts, historical documents, or decorative writing, where the seamless connection of these three letters at the beginning of a word is desired.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD53
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah 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 "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵓ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵓ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD53
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD53
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd53

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 "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"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