U+FD9C "ﶜ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD9C "ﶜ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Final Form is a typographic representation found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, specifically designed for calligraphic or traditional text layout where the letters Yeh (ي), Meem (م), and a second Meem (م) are combined into a single glyph positioned at the end of a word. This ligature serves to streamline written Arabic by merging these consecutive characters into a cohesive visual unit, often used in Quranic or classic manuscripts to enhance readability and aesthetic flow. It represents a specific final-form context, meaning it only appears when these letters occur in a word’s terminal position, and its encoding supports advanced text rendering in specialized software that respects complex Arabic script rules.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD9C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem 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 | "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd9c |