U+FD99 "" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FD99 "" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature that represents a specific combination of the Arabic letters noon (ن), jeem (ج), and alef maksura (ى) in their final form, meaning it appears at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and was encoded for compatibility with older text rendering systems that required precomposed forms for certain common letter sequences. Used primarily in classical Arabic script and Quranic texts, the ligature helps maintain visual consistency and spacing in calligraphy and typesetting by blending these letters into a single glyph without altering their pronunciation or meaning. While modern Unicode processes typically compose such sequences dynamically from individual characters, U+FD99 remains available for legacy support and precise typographic reproduction.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﶙ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﶙ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB6 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFD99
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FD99
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufd99