U+FDB4 "ﶴ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FDB4 "ﶴ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to combine the letters Qaf (ق), Meem (م), and Hah (ح) into a single connected glyph in their initial or word-starting forms. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes contextual shapes and ligatures that facilitate accurate rendering of complex Arabic calligraphy and typesetting. It represents a tri-consonantal sequence often found in classical or religious texts, such as those containing the divine name or scholarly terminology, where aesthetic or scribal tradition demands a compact and flowing visual representation. U+FDB4 is not intended for modern plain text interchange but rather for specialized use in legacy systems, typography, or digital reproductions of historical manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDB4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem with Hah Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdb4 |