U+FD6F "ﵯ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD6F "ﵯ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah with Meem Final Form is a typographic composite found in the Arabic script block, representing a mandatory ligature that combines the letters Dad (ض), Khah (خ), and Meem (م) in their final positional form. This ligature is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and typesetting to visually streamline the writing of specific words, particularly in the context of the Quran or classical texts, where it ensures proper reading and aesthetic flow by joining these three distinct letters into a single connected glyph as part of the orthographic tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD6F
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah 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 "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵯ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD6F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD6F
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd6f

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 "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
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