U+FDC5 "ﷅ" Arabic Ligature Sad with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FDC5 "ﷅ" Arabic Ligature Sad with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a specialized typographic glyph that represents a calligraphic ligature of the Arabic letter Sad (ص) followed by two Meem (م) letters in their initial forms, used primarily in classical Arabic script and Quranic text rendering to create a compact and aesthetically pleasing composition. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed for compatibility with older text processing systems and to preserve traditional joining patterns in handwritten or typeset Arabic. It is not commonly used in modern digital text, but it appears in scholarly editions, decorative headings, and certain software that supports historical Arabic calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDC5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sad 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 | "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﷅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﷅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDC5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdc5 |