U+FD8B "ﶋ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶋ
U+FD8B "ﶋ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, combining the letters meem (م), hah (ح), and yeh (ي) into a single glyph specifically designed for the final position of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures and contextual forms that historically aided in faithful reproduction of classical texts, particularly the Quran, where such connected letter sequences are common. Its use ensures a seamless, calligraphic appearance in Arabic typography, though modern text rendering often relies on dynamic shaping rather than precomposed ligatures like this one.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD8B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah with Yeh 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd8b |