U+FD86 "ﶆ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶆ
U+FD86 "ﶆ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters Lam (ل), Khah (خ), and Meem (م) in their initial positional forms within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is designed to simplify typesetting by providing a single glyph for the three letters when they appear consecutively at the beginning of a word. It enables more accurate and aesthetic rendering of certain words in written Arabic, particularly in Quranic texts or traditional calligraphy, though it is not used in standard modern digital text input.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD86 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam 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 | "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 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd86 |