U+FD59 "ﵙ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD59 "ﵙ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem with Hah Initial Form is a typographic compound from the Arabic script, representing the connected initial forms of the letters Jeem (ج), Meem (م), and Hah (ح) combined into a single glyph. This ligature belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized characters used to maintain proper calligraphic and contextual shaping in certain historical or decorated text layouts. It is typically utilized in formal or Quranic manuscripts to improve visual harmony and spacing, and it appears only at the beginning of a word where each letter takes its initial form. This character is not commonly used in modern standard digital Arabic text, as modern fonts handle such ligatures through dynamic shaping algorithms rather than discrete encoded characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD59 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem with Hah 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 | "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd59 |