U+FD7D "ﵽ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
"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