U+FD61 "ﵡ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD61 "ﵡ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined initial forms of the letters Seen (س), Meem (م), and Jeem (ج) as they appear at the beginning of a word. This code point falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support certain calligraphic and printing variations that are not typically encoded in the standard Arabic text block. The ligature is used in contexts where these three consonants are connected in a cursive initial position, often to replicate traditional or aesthetic manuscript styles where such combinations are rendered as a single, cohesive glyph. It is important to note that this character is intended for special presentation purposes and is not part of the standard modern digital text encoding for everyday Arabic writing, which instead relies on dynamic shaping of individual letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD61 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen 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 | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd61 |