U+FD93 "ﶓ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD93 "ﶓ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic composite glyph found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the initial or word-initial form of a ligature that combines the letters Heh (ه), Meem (م), and Jeem (ج) into a single cursive unit. This character is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and traditional script writing to create a more compact and aesthetically flowing representation of the three-consonant sequence, typically appearing at the beginning of a word where the initial shape of the ligature connects to the following letters. It is important to note that such presentation forms are not part of standard modern Arabic text encoding and are primarily provided for backward compatibility with older text systems and for specialized rendering in historical or decorative contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD93 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem 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 | "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD93 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD93 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd93 |