U+FD7D "ﵽ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﵽ
U+FD7D "ﵽ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Initial Form is a specialized typographic glyph used in Arabic script, representing a cursive joining of the letters feh, khah, and meem in their initial forms, as they appear at the beginning of a word. This ligature belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes precomposed combinations to support complex calligraphic styles and traditional text rendering, particularly in historical or decorative contexts. The character simplifies the visual representation of these three consonants when they occur sequentially, ensuring their smooth connection and proper shaping according to Arabic handwriting conventions, though it is rarely encountered in modern digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD7D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah 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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD7D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD7D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd7d |