U+FD79 "ﵹ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD79 "ﵹ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically designed for the complex calligraphic tradition of composing the letter ghain (غ) followed by two sequential meem (م) letters when they appear in their final positional form. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed glyphs that represent common or aesthetically unified ligatures for better rendering in text. Its purpose is to combine these three consonants into a single cohesive shape, preserving the visual flow and readability expected in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and typesetting, particularly in religious or formal texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD79
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem 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 "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵹ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD79
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD79
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd79

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 "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"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