U+FD60 "ﵠ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD60 "ﵠ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem with Hah Initial Form is a special typographic character used in the Arabic script to represent a connected ligature of the letters seen, meem, and hah in their initial forms, where the three consonants are joined together as a single visual unit for calligraphic or orthographic consistency. This ligature appears in certain historical or stylistic texts within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to encode complex cursive shapes that are not covered by standard Arabic character encoding. Its usage facilitates precise rendering in digital environments where traditional Arabic typesetting requires the seamless merging of these letters at the beginning of a word. The character itself resembles an ornate arrangement of the three base letters, with the seen forming a distinct top curve followed by a meem and a hah, all linked in a flowing horizontal line.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD60
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Seen 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 "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵠ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD60
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD60
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd60

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 "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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