U+FDA5 "ﶥ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
U+FDA5 "ﶥ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem with Yeh Final Form is a presentation-form glyph used in Arabic script calligraphy and typography, specifically representing a mandatory ligature that combines the letters jeem (ج), meem (م), and yeh (ي) into a single connected shape as it appears at the end of a word. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is intended for backward compatibility with older text rendering systems rather than for standard modern Unicode text, which typically uses separate, dynamically shaped characters. This ligature is most commonly encountered in Quranic manuscripts or decorative contexts where traditional calligraphic styles demand a compact and fluid combination of these three letters in their final positional form, particularly in words like "رَحِيم" (Rahim) where the sequence occurs at the word's tail.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDA5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Jeem 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 | "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufda5 |