U+FD9D "ﶝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶝ
U+FD9D "ﶝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combination of the letters Yeh (ی), Meem (م), and Meem (م) when they appear at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms block, which encodes special contextual shapes for more accurate text rendering in certain fonts and environments. It helps maintain aesthetic harmony in calligraphic and printed Arabic by merging the initial forms of these three letters into a single connected glyph, streamlining the cursive flow without breaking the visual line.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD9D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem 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 | "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 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD9D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd9d |