U+FDC3 "ﷃ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FDC3 "ﷃ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a special typographic character used in the Arabic script to represent a precomposed, connected sequence of three letters—kaf (ك), meem (م), and another meem (م)—in their initial positional form, meaning the letters are joined together at the beginning of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which preserves traditional calligraphic variations often found in historic and religious texts, particularly for elegant or aesthetic rendering. Its presence in Unicode allows for consistent digital display of such ligatures, which may appear in classical manuscripts or specialized typography, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Arabic writing, where individual letters would typically be typed instead.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDC3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem 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 | "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 0xB7 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdc3 |