U+FDB8 "ﶸ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶸ
U+FDB8 "ﶸ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Hah Initial Form is a specialized typographic glyph used in Arabic script calligraphy and high-quality digital typesetting. It represents a ligature, or connected form, of the Arabic letters Noon (ن), Jeem (ج), and Hah (ح) combined in their initial shapes, meaning each letter takes the form it would at the beginning of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes such decorative or contextual character combinations to preserve accurate script rendering in historical, religious, or stylistic texts. It is primarily intended for display and not for general modern text interchange, where separate characters are typically preferred.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDB8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdb8 |