U+FD6C "ﵬ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD6C "ﵬ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Meem Final Form is a specialized typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a tri-ligature where the letter sheen (ش) is connected first to a meem (م) and then to another meem in its final form, which appears at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range of Unicode designed to support complex text layout and calligraphic traditions, particularly for historic or stylistic Quranic and religious texts where such compact, connected forms improve visual flow and aesthetic harmony. While modern digital Arabic typically uses separate characters and shaping algorithms to create ligatures dynamically, U+FD6C provides a precomposed option for specific, high-fidelity rendering needs, ensuring that scholars and typesetters can accurately reproduce traditional manuscripts without relying on software that may not support advanced ligature substitution.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD6C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Meem 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 | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD6C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd6c |