U+FD3B "" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FD3B "" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Medial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, representing a special combined form of the letter zah (ظ) and meem (م) in their medial positions within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes complex ligatures designed for legacy or decorative text rendering rather than for modern standard text encoding. It appears in historical or stylistic contexts, such as in Quranic manuscripts or calligraphic works, where the two letters are joined for visual harmony or space efficiency. The ligature is not intended for general-purpose digital text and may not render correctly in all fonts, but it serves as an important artifact of traditional Arabic typography.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﴻ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﴻ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB4 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFD3B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FD3B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufd3b