U+FDAC "ﶬ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
U+FDAC "ﶬ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing a complex combination of the letters lam (ل), jeem (ج), and yeh (ي) in their final positional form, where the letters join together to form a single glyph. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support traditional typesetting and calligraphy by providing precomposed ligatures that may appear in Quranic texts or classical manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for more accurate representation of historical and stylistic Arabic writing, where such ligatures are used to streamline or embellish the appearance of letter sequences, though it is not commonly employed in modern digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDAC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdac |