U+FD99 "ﶙ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD99 "ﶙ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature that represents a specific combination of the Arabic letters noon (ن), jeem (ج), and alef maksura (ى) in their final form, meaning it appears at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and was encoded for compatibility with older text rendering systems that required precomposed forms for certain common letter sequences. Used primarily in classical Arabic script and Quranic texts, the ligature helps maintain visual consistency and spacing in calligraphy and typesetting by blending these letters into a single glyph without altering their pronunciation or meaning. While modern Unicode processes typically compose such sequences dynamically from individual characters, U+FD99 remains available for legacy support and precise typographic reproduction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD99 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Alef Maksura 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd99 |