U+FD0D "ﴍ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Reh Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FD0D "ﴍ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Reh Isolated Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a special ligature that combines the letter sheen (ش) with the letter reh (ر) in their isolated form into a single connected shape. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which is primarily intended for compatibility with legacy text processing systems and for use in contexts where exact visual rendering of Arabic calligraphy is required. The ligature is not typically generated by standard modern Arabic keyboards or fonts, as the two letters are usually typed separately and rendered by the shaping engine, but U+FD0D provides a precomposed form for historical or specialized applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD0D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Reh 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 "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴍ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴍ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD0D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD0D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd0d

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 "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
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