U+FD09 "ﴉ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD09 "ﴉ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic composite glyph found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing a cursive joining of the Arabic letters sheen (ش) and jeem (ج) into a single isolated form. This ligature is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and typesetting to facilitate fluid and aesthetically compact text, particularly in historical or decorative scripts where such combinations follow traditional orthographic conventions. It is important to note that this character is a presentation form intended for specific visual rendering rather than a standard grapheme used in modern Arabic writing, and its implementation depends on font support and rendering engines that can properly display this specialized ligature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD09
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Isolated Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴉ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD09
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD09
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd09

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 "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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