U+FDB6 "ﶶ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶶ
U+FDB6 "ﶶ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a cursive combination of the letters ‘Ain (ع), Meem (م), and Yeh (ي) when they appear at the end of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed glyphs for complex text shaping in traditional or calligraphic Arabic writing. Its primary function is to provide a single code point for a specific stylistic form, ensuring consistent visual rendering in environments like digital text rendering or typography, though it is not typically used in everyday modern text due to the availability of dynamic shaping via Unicode normalization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDB6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Ain 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 | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDB6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdb6 |