U+FDBB "ﶻ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character
U+FDBB "ﶻ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, designed to represent the combination of the letters Kaf (ك), Meem (م), and another Meem (م) in their final positional form within a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains complex character shapes used for aesthetic or calligraphic rendering in Arabic text processing. It reflects the tradition in Arabic calligraphy of merging adjacent letters into a single glyph to enhance visual flow and compactness, often seen in religious, formal, or decorative writing contexts. The character is not used for standard modern Arabic text but rather for specialized display systems, such as in Quranic manuscripts or historical typesetting, where preserving the precise cursive appearance of specific letter sequences is important for readability or artistic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDBB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Meem 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 | "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDBB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDBB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdbb |