U+FD80 "ﶀ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah with Meem Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD80 "ﶀ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing a combined form of the letters Lam (ل), Hah (ح), and Meem (م) in their final positional context. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, designed to encode historical or calligraphic text renderings where these three characters are joined together for aesthetic or space-saving purposes. It is typically employed in Quranic manuscripts, decorative writing, or orthographic traditions that favor such complex connected shapes over separate character sequences. The character’s final form indicates it appears at the end of a word, and it is primarily encountered in specialized digital typography or textual scholarship focused on classical Arabic documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD80 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd80 |