U+FD57 "ﵗ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD57 "ﵗ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Khah Initial Form is a specialized typographic character used in the Arabic script to represent a complex ligature of the letters teh, meem, and khah, specifically in their initial form. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which provides precomposed combinations designed to facilitate more accurate rendering in digital text where standard shaping algorithms may be insufficient. The character is primarily encountered in historical or high-quality typesetting contexts, such as in Quranic manuscripts or classical Islamic texts, where it helps maintain proper calligraphic tradition and reading clarity for the connected sequence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD57 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd57 |