U+FD8E "ﶎ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD8E "ﶎ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, specifically representing the initial, or word-starting, shape of a compound letter that combines the Arabic letters meem (م), khah (خ), and jeem (ج) into a single glyph. This character is used in certain calligraphic and text rendering contexts to improve the visual fluidity and compactness of written Arabic, particularly in historical manuscripts or specialized fonts where such tri-literal ligatures are supported by the Unicode standard for accurate digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD8E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd8e |