U+FD8A "ﶊ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD8A "ﶊ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature in the Arabic script that represents a specific connected sequence of the three letters meem, hah, and meem in their initial positional forms, where the letters are joined together as a single visual glyph for calligraphic or typesetting convenience. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to encode common ligatures and contextual shapes not covered by standard Unicode Arabic characters, facilitating accurate rendering in texts where such traditional handwritten forms are preserved or preferred. Its use is primarily historical or stylistic rather than for everyday modern text, serving to maintain visual fidelity in certain religious, literary, or decorative Arabic documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD8A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd8a |