U+FD7B "ﵻ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD7B "ﵻ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to combine the three Arabic characters ghain (غ), meem (م), and alef maksura (ى) into a single glyph for use in the final position of a word. This ligature is part of a set of presentation forms created for compatibility with older text rendering systems and specific calligraphic traditions, where it represents the seamless joining of these letters as they appear in connected Arabic script. It is not a standalone letter but a specialized graphic variant, primarily used in legacy digital fonts or historical texts to achieve a more compact and aesthetically traditional appearance, and it is not typically employed in modern standard Arabic writing or Unicode normalization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD7B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem with Alef Maksura 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD7B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD7B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd7b |