U+FD9B "ﶛ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶛ
U+FD9B "ﶛ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a connected sequence of the letters noon (ن), meem (م), and alef maksura (ى) in their final positional form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes various stylistic and contextual variants of Arabic letters for compatibility with older text rendering systems. Its presence in Unicode allows for the accurate representation of Arabic calligraphy and traditional orthography, particularly in texts where such ligatures are preferred for aesthetic or conventional reasons, such as in religious or classical literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD9B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd9b |