U+FD55 "ﵕ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD55 "ﵕ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Jeem Initial Form is a specialized typographic glyph found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to represent a specific initial-form ligature used in cursive Arabic script. This character combines three distinct Arabic letters 'teh' (ت), 'meem' (م), and 'jeem' (ج), reshaping them together as a single graceful unit positioned at the beginning of a word. Primarily serving historical calligraphic and typesetting purposes, such a ligature was employed in traditional printed texts to visually streamline letter combinations for improved aesthetics and readability. It is important to note that this character is a presentation form and not intended for modern digital text processing, which instead relies on standard Unicode Arabic letters and dynamic shaping technologies like OpenType. Proper use of U+FD55 typically requires an appropriate Arabic font that correctly displays the ligature's intended initial form, ensuring the three
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD55 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd55 |