U+FD9D "ﶝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FD9D "ﶝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combination of the letters Yeh (ی), Meem (م), and Meem (م) when they appear at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms block, which encodes special contextual shapes for more accurate text rendering in certain fonts and environments. It helps maintain aesthetic harmony in calligraphic and printed Arabic by merging the initial forms of these three letters into a single connected glyph, streamlining the cursive flow without breaking the visual line.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+FD9D
Name
Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem with Meem Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﶝ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﶝ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB6 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFD9D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FD9D
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufd9d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic