U+FDBA "" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FDBA "" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script that represents a joined sequence of the letters Lam (ل), Jeem (ج), and Meem (م) in their initial positional forms, meaning it is intended to appear at the beginning of a word. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures historically used in calligraphic texts and older typesetting systems to achieve more aesthetically pleasing or space-efficient text. In modern digital contexts, this character is mostly decorative and handled by advanced font shaping engines, but it remains available for specialized applications such as liturgical or historical document reproduction.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﶺ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﶺ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB6 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFDBA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FDBA
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufdba