U+FD75 "ﵵ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD75 "ﵵ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically designed for the contextual final form of a word where the letters Ain, Jeem, and Meem are connected in a single compound glyph. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed character combinations intended for compatibility with legacy text rendering, allowing the three distinct letters to appear as a seamless graphic unit at the end of a word. It serves to preserve the calligraphic and cursive nature of Arabic writing, where such ligatures are common in elegant typesetting and religious or formal texts, though it is rarely needed in modern digital communication due to more advanced Unicode shaping engines.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD75
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem 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 "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵵ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵵ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD75
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD75
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd75

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 "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"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