U+FD54 "ﵔ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﵔ
U+FD54 "ﵔ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, representing a connected sequence of the letters Teh (ت), Khah (خ), and Meem (م) in their initial or word-beginning shapes. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is used primarily for calligraphic and high-end text rendering, where such tri-letter combinations are joined into a single glyph to achieve a more aesthetically unified and compact appearance. This character is employed in certain contexts of formal Arabic writing, such as in the Qur'an or traditional manuscripts, to enhance readability and visual flow while preserving the distinct identity of each component letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD54 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd54 |