U+FD26 "ﴦ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Final Form Unicode Character

U+FD26 "ﴦ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Final Form is a presentation form glyph found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, specifically designed to represent a typographic ligature of the Arabic letters Sheen (ش) and Hah (ح) in their final positional form, which appears at the end of a word when connected to a preceding character. This ligature is a calligraphic variant that combines the two consonants into a single visual unit for more fluid and aesthetically pleasing script, particularly in traditional or highly stylized Arabic text settings such as religious manuscripts. Its usage is not mandatory in standard Arabic orthography but is instead a typographic convenience that enhances continuity in cursive writing, and it is intended primarily for compatibility with older text processing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD26
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah 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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD26
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD26
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd26

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