U+FD8F "ﶏ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD8F "ﶏ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combined sequence of the letters meem, khah, and meem in their initial positional form within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed glyphs designed for compatibility with legacy text and specific calligraphic styles, rather than typical modern Unicode text encoding where separate characters would be composed dynamically. The ligature ensures a visually cohesive and aesthetically pleasing rendering of these consonants when they appear at the beginning of a flow, adhering to traditional Arabic calligraphy rules where adjacent letters often merge for fluidity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD8F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd8f |