U+FD63 "ﵣ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD63 "ﵣ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the three-letter sequence of the letters seen (س) followed by two meem (م) letters in their initial forms. This ligature is part of a larger set of Arabic presentation forms designed for improved rendering of certain common letter combinations, particularly in traditional or high-quality typesetting where the connected shapes are merged into a single glyph. It is classified under the Unicode block Arabic Presentation Forms-A, which contains mostly contextual forms and ligatures used for compliance with older text standards and for specialized display purposes. While modern Unicode typically encourages the use of standard Arabic characters with shaping engines, U+FD63 provides a precomposed rendition optimized for calligraphic or precise visual representation in certain digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD63 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem with Meem 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd63 |