U+FDA4 "ﶤ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FDA4 "ﶤ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic compound glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a ligature that combines three distinct letters: Teh (ت), Meem (م), and Alef Maksura (ى), specifically in their final form as they appear at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to facilitate the digital representation of traditional calligraphic and historical text styles where such ligatures are common for aesthetic or readability reasons. It is not typically used in modern plain text typing, as contemporary Arabic text is usually encoded as separate, individual characters, but it remains important for accurately displaying certain Qur’anic manuscripts, decorative scripts, or specialized publishing contexts. The ligature reflects the cursive and connected nature of Arabic writing, where multiple characters can be merged into a single visual unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDA4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh 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 | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufda4 |