U+FD98 "ﶘ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶘ
U+FD98 "ﶘ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters noon, jeem, and meem in their initial or word-beginning forms. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which is designed to provide precomposed ligatures for advanced text rendering and calligraphic styles. It is primarily utilized in contexts where precise and aesthetically connected writing is required, such as religious texts or formal documents, and it allows a single code point to display the three consonants merged into a single glyph for smoother visual flow.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD98 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem 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 "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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd98 |