U+FD97 "ﶗ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD97 "ﶗ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combined sequence of the letters noon (ن), jeem (ج), and meem (م) when they appear in the final position of a word, shaped for calligraphic elegance and space efficiency. This particular ligature is encoded in the Unicode standard's Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized glyphs for the visual rendering of Arabic text. It is commonly employed in traditional Quranic manuscripts and formal Arabic calligraphy, ensuring that the connected strokes of these three letters are rendered smoothly without visual interruption.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD97 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Meem Final Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd97 |