U+FD72 "ﵲ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﵲ
U+FD72 "ﵲ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem with Hah Initial Form is a presentation form character used in the Arabic script, specifically designed for the initial position of a word. It represents a complex ligature that combines the letters Tah (ط), Meem (م), and Hah (ح) into a single connected glyph, reflecting the calligraphic and cursive nature of Arabic writing. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains such ligatures to support historical and typographic rendering needs, though it is not typically used in modern plain text. Its purpose is to preserve the visual harmony and fluidity of the script in specialized contexts like religious texts or sophisticated typesetting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD72 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem with Hah 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 | "ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd72 |