U+FD59 "" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FD59 "" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem with Hah Initial Form is a typographic compound from the Arabic script, representing the connected initial forms of the letters Jeem (ج), Meem (م), and Hah (ح) combined into a single glyph. This ligature belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized characters used to maintain proper calligraphic and contextual shaping in certain historical or decorated text layouts. It is typically utilized in formal or Quranic manuscripts to improve visual harmony and spacing, and it appears only at the beginning of a word where each letter takes its initial form. This character is not commonly used in modern standard digital Arabic text, as modern fonts handle such ligatures through dynamic shaping algorithms rather than discrete encoded characters.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﵙ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﵙ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB5 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFD59
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FD59
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufd59