U+FD0A "ﴊ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD0A "ﴊ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic presentation form found in the Arabic script block, representing a specific ligature that combines the letters Sheen (ش) and Hah (ح) into a single glyph for improved calligraphic aesthetics. This character is classified as a presentation form, meaning it exists primarily for compatibility with legacy text encoding and may not be necessary in modern, non-joining Arabic rendering. It appears in the isolated form context, where it stands alone rather than connecting to adjacent letters. The ligature is used in certain historical or stylized texts to maintain visual harmony, but it is generally discouraged in standard Unicode text processing in favor of the individual characters and dynamic shaping provided by fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD0A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah 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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴊ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴊ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD0A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD0A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd0a

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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