U+FD85 "ﶅ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD85 "ﶅ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Final Form is a typographic composite glyph used in the Perso-Arabic script, specifically representing a ligature where the letters lam, khah, and meem are combined into a single connected form at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support complex calligraphic and typographic traditions by allowing certain letter sequences to appear as a single, seamless unit rather than separate characters. It is primarily utilized in historical or artistic contexts, such as in Quranic texts or decorative calligraphy, where aesthetic fluidity and adherence to traditional script rules are prioritized over modern Unicode normalization practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD85 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd85 |