U+FDC0 "ﷀ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
U+FDC0 "ﷀ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem with Yeh Final Form is a specialized typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a conditional ligature that combines the letters Meem (م), Jeem (ج), and Yeh (ي) into a single connected form, specifically in their final position for text rendering. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed for advanced calligraphic or typesetting contexts, though it is rarely stored in modern digital text due to its limited usage in historical manuscripts or specialized typesetting systems. Its encoding ensures that the ligature can be preserved in electronic documents without relying solely on complex OpenType or font shaping features, but its practical application is largely obsolete in contemporary Arabic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDC0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem with Yeh 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﷀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﷀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdc0 |