U+FD74 "ﵴ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD74 "ﵴ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic composite glyph used in the Arabic script to represent the cascading calligraphic combination of the letters Tah (ط), Meem (م), and Yeh (ي) in a final positional form, where the Yeh takes its isolated or final shape. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to preserve the visual integrity of traditional calligraphy and facilitate correct rendering in digital text, particularly for historical or religious manuscripts. It appears as a continuous, stylized unit that helps maintain the flowing aesthetic of Arabic writing when these three characters occur in sequence at the end of a word, though its use is primarily for backward compatibility with older encoding systems rather than modern standard Unicode text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD74 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Tah with Meem with Yeh 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 | "ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd74 |