U+FCEA "ﳪ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Heh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCEA "ﳪ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Heh Medial Form is a typographic glyph classified as an Arabic presentation form, designed for use in specific contexts of Arabic script text rendering, particularly within legacy systems or digital environments that require precomposed ligatures. It represents the combination of the Arabic letter Sheen (ش) positioned medial, attaching to a following Heh (ه) also in its medial form, and is typically employed to achieve a visually harmonious connected shape in running text. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was primarily intended for compatibility with older text processing systems and is not recommended for general modern use, as Unicode encourages the use of standard Arabic characters and dynamic shaping mechanisms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCEA
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Heh Medial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳪ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳪ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCEA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCEA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcea

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter