U+0634 "ش" Arabic Letter Sheen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ش
U+0634 "ش" Arabic Letter Sheen is the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing the sound equivalent to the English "sh" as in "ship." In Arabic script, it is a consonant derived from the letter seen (س) with the addition of three dots above its crescent-shaped body, and its position in a word determines its written form through initial, medial, final, and isolated variants. The letter Sheen plays a significant role not only in Arabic but also in other languages that use the Arabic script, such as Persian, Urdu, and Pashto, where it retains a similar phonetic value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0634 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Sheen |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ش |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ش |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0634 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000634 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0634 |