U+FD0C "ﴌ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﴌ
U+FD0C "ﴌ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic representation in the Arabic script where the letters sheen (ش) and meem (م) are combined into a single glyph for elegant calligraphic or typesetting purposes. This ligature, classified under the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, is specifically intended for isolated use, meaning it stands alone rather than connecting to adjacent letters in a word. Its purpose is to facilitate smoother, more stylized text in contexts such as religious manuscripts or decorative headings, though it is not typically used in standard modern digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD0C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd0c |
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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| 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 |