U+FDAD "ﶭ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
U+FDAD "ﶭ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem with Yeh Final Form is a complex typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically designed for the final position of a word where the letters Lam (ل), Meem (م), and Yeh (ي) appear as a single connected unit. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized characters for calligraphic and typesetting purposes, often found in historical texts or decorative contexts. The character represents a traditional way to simplify the visual combination of these three letters when written in sequence, enhancing readability in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy. Its usage is limited to scripts that require precise, precomposed forms, and it is not typically employed in standard modern digital text, which instead relies on dynamic shaping by fonts and rendering engines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDAD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDAD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdad |