U+FD88 "ﶈ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD88 "ﶈ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically designed for the initial position within a word, where the letters Lam (ل), Meem (م), and Hah (ح) are combined into a single glyph to streamline calligraphy and typesetting. This ligature forms part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains complex contextual shapes that facilitate the elegant joining of letters in cursive Arabic writing, often used in traditional manuscripts and modern digital fonts for readability and aesthetic consistency. Its encoding allows software and documents to correctly display the intended visual form of the word, preserving the cultural and linguistic nuances of Arabic text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD88 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem with Hah 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd88 |