U+FD5B "ﵛ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD5B "ﵛ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script calligraphy and text rendering, representing a special connected form of the letters Hah (ح), Meem (م), and Alef Maksura (ى) in their final positional variant. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to enable precise visual representation of traditional handwriting or typesetting conventions where these three characters are combined into a single, stylized glyph. Its purpose is primarily historical or aesthetic, allowing for smooth and compact connections in formal or decorative texts, such as in Quranic inscriptions or classical manuscripts, rather than for standard modern digital typography, where separate characters are typically preferred for Unicode normalization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD5B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Hah with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd5b |