U+FCDD "" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FCDD "" 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is to represent the initial position of this letter pair within a word, facilitating accurate display in contexts like historical documents or certain software where standard Unicode Arabic shaping is not supported.

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