U+FD9A "ﶚ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD9A "ﶚ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic representation in the Arabic script that combines the letters noon (ن), meem (م), and yeh (ي) into a single, connected glyph specifically designed for the final position within a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms block, which was created to support calligraphic and traditional text rendering by providing precomposed forms of common letter sequences. Its purpose is to preserve the visual harmony and fluidity of Arabic calligraphy, where certain combinations of letters are joined together to avoid gaps or awkward spacing in cursive writing. While modern Unicode text processing typically relies on shaping engines to dynamically form ligatures, this character offers a fixed, precomposed alternative for systems or fonts that lack such capabilities, ensuring accurate display in specific historical or stylistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD9A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem with Yeh 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd9a |