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

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FD86 "ﶆ" 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.

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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