U+FD8C "ﶌ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD8C "ﶌ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined initial forms of the letters Meem, Jeem, and Hah when they appear at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to facilitate the accurate display of complex calligraphic and printed Arabic text where these three consonants join seamlessly in a single glyph. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the preservation and rendering of traditional Arabic orthography, particularly in Qur'anic manuscripts and other formal documents, where such ligatures enhance readability and maintain cultural script conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD8C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd8c |