U+FD86 "" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FD86 "" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters Lam (ل), Khah (خ), and Meem (م) in their initial positional forms within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is designed to simplify typesetting by providing a single glyph for the three letters when they appear consecutively at the beginning of a word. It enables more accurate and aesthetic rendering of certain words in written Arabic, particularly in Quranic texts or traditional calligraphy, though it is not used in standard modern digital text input.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﶆ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﶆ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB6 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFD86
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FD86
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufd86