U+FD94 "ﶔ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD94 "ﶔ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script presentation forms block, specifically intended for use in complex text rendering where two meem letters and a heh are combined in their initial positional shapes to create a single glyph. This character facilitates more fluent and aesthetically consistent calligraphy in languages that use the Arabic alphabet, such as Arabic, Persian, or Urdu, by avoiding the separate spacing of the component letters. It appears primarily in historical or specialized digital typography contexts, as modern Unicode encoding typically relies on dynamic shaping algorithms rather than precomposed ligatures.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD94
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem 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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﶔ
HTML Hex Encoding ﶔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB6 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD94
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD94
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd94

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter