U+FDB3 "ﶳ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶳ
U+FDB3 "ﶳ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing a connected sequence of the Arabic letters noon (ن), hah (ح), and yeh (ي) specifically in their final position within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed for compatibility with older text encoding systems as it consolidates common letter combinations into a single glyph. The ligature appears in written Arabic, Persian, and other languages using the script where it simplifies or enhances the visual rendering of these letters together.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDB3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdb3 |