U+FDBC "ﶼ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDBC "ﶼ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Meem Final Form is a specialized typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combined sequence of the letters Lam (ل), Jeem (ج), and Meem (م) in their final form, meaning it appears at the end of a word. This ligature streamlines handwriting and calligraphy by merging the three characters into a single, visually cohesive glyph, improving readability and aesthetic flow in written Arabic. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes precomposed ligatures for compatibility with legacy text rendering systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDBC
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem 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 "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 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDBC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDBC
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdbc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter