U+FDB1 "ﶱ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Meem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FDB1 "ﶱ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Meem with Yeh Final Form is a specialized typographic character used in the Arabic script to represent a ligature, or joined form, of the letters meem, meem, and yeh when they appear together at the end of a word. This ligature ensures a visually cohesive and elegant connection between the three letters, which are often used in religious or classical texts to maintain proper calligraphic flow and readability. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range of characters designed for precise text rendering in complex layouts, and its use is essential for accurately displaying certain Arabic words that demand a specific final-form combination.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDB1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdb1 |