U+FDBD "ﶽ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Hah Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDBD "ﶽ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Hah Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing a specific, visually combined form of the letters noon (ن), jeem (ج), and hah (ح) as they appear at the end of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed shapes designed to enhance the visual harmony and readability of printed cursive Persian and Arabic texts, particularly in older or complex typographic systems. While not commonly used in modern digital environments that rely on advanced shaping engines, it serves as a historical or stylistic alternative for faithfully reproducing traditional calligraphic layouts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDBD
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Hah 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 "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 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDBD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDBD
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdbd

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 "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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