U+FD25 "ﴥ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Final Form Unicode Character

U+FD25 "ﴥ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Final Form is a typographic ligature specifically used in the Arabic script, combining the letters "sheen" (ش) and "jeem" (ج) into a single glyph when they appear in the final position of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed for complex text rendering in traditional orthography and calligraphy, where the ligature helps maintain visual harmony and readability by merging adjacent letters without disrupting the cursive flow. It is not commonly used in modern digital text but appears in religious or classical manuscripts, such as in Quranic verses or historic Arabic literature, where the precise shape and spacing of such ligatures preserve established scribal conventions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD25
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Final Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Final
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 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD25
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD25
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd25

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