U+FD89 "ﶉ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶉ
U+FD89 "ﶉ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing a combined initial form of the letters Meem (م), Hah (ح), and Jeem (ج). This specific ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is employed in contexts such as Quranic text and calligraphy, where connected letterforms are visually merged for aesthetic or stylistic reasons. It is designed to appear at the beginning of a word, with the distinctive cursive shape of the initial meem flowing into the following hah and jeem, and should be used only in legacy rendering systems, as modern Unicode text typically utilizes standard Arabic characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD89 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd89 |