U+FD95 "ﶕ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD95 "ﶕ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to combine the letters Noon (ن), Hah (ح), and Meem (م) into a single condensed glyph at the initial position of a word. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which historically provided precomposed ligatures for better compatibility with older font rendering systems and print traditions. It represents a visual simplification where the distinct shapes of the three letters are merged, streamlining cursive writing and preserving the text's natural flow, though its use has largely been supplanted by modern Unicode shaping engines that automatically form such ligatures based on context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD95 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD95 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD95 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd95 |