U+FD77 "ﵷ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD77 "ﵷ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters "Ain" (ع), "Meem" (م), and another "Meem" (م) in their initial positional forms, where characters are joined at the beginning of a word or syllable. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was historically included in Unicode to accommodate legacy font encoding systems that required precomposed shapes for text rendering. Its primary function is to optimize the visual display of such three-letter sequences in traditional calligraphy or specific document formats, though it is rarely used in modern digital text due to the prevalence of advanced shaping engines that handle character combinations automatically.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD77 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem 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 | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd77 |