U+FD54 "ﵔ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"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