U+FDBA "ﶺ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FDBA "ﶺ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script that represents a joined sequence of the letters Lam (ل), Jeem (ج), and Meem (م) in their initial positional forms, meaning it is intended to appear at the beginning of a word. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures historically used in calligraphic texts and older typesetting systems to achieve more aesthetically pleasing or space-efficient text. In modern digital contexts, this character is mostly decorative and handled by advanced font shaping engines, but it remains available for specialized applications such as liturgical or historical document reproduction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDBA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Meem 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDBA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdba |