U+FCDD "ﳝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FCDD "ﳝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the Arabic letters Yeh (ي) and Meem (م) in their initial forms to create a single, conjoined glyph. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, designed for compatibility with older text rendering systems that require fixed-width or precomposed shapes rather than modern dynamic cursive shaping. Its primary purpose is to represent the initial position of this letter pair within a word, facilitating accurate display in contexts like historical documents or certain software where standard Unicode Arabic shaping is not supported.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+FCDD
Name
Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﳝ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﳝ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB3 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFCDD
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FCDD
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufcdd
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic