U+FD83 "ﶃ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD83 "ﶃ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a special ligature that combines the letters lam (ل) and two consecutive jeem (ج) characters in their initial forms to create a single, cohesive visual unit. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, historically designed for traditional Arabic calligraphy and typesetting to enhance readability and aesthetic flow, particularly in contexts where such letter combinations are frequent. It functions as a precomposed character, meaning it encodes the entire ligature as one code point rather than requiring separate characters and complex shaping logic, facilitating consistent rendering in specific digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD83 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Jeem 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD83 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd83 |