U+FD53 "ﵓ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 It is primarily employed in contexts requiring precise orthography, such as religious texts, historical documents, or decorative writing, where the seamless connection of these three letters at the beginning of a word is desired.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 |