U+FD70 "ﵰ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD70 "ﵰ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah with Meem Initial Form is a specialized typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a ligature that combines the letters Dad (ض), Khah (خ), and Meem (م) in their initial forms. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range designed to support complex text layout and calligraphic traditions, particularly for languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu that utilize such ligatures for aesthetic or practical reasons in typesetting. It is typically employed in contexts where a word begins with this consonant cluster, allowing for a seamless and visually compact representation that reflects historical handwriting practices. As a non-spacing mark, it is not intended for modern plain text but rather for legacy systems or specialized display requirements where precise glyph shaping is necessary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD70 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah 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 | "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 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd70 |