U+FD27 "ﴧ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Final Form Unicode Character

U+FD27 "ﴧ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters sheen (ش) and khah (خ) as they appear in their final positional form at the end of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support the complex calligraphic and cursive rendering of Arabic text, particularly for traditional and historic orthography. It is employed in contexts where a single glyph is used to combine the two characters for aesthetic or stylistic reasons, and it should be distinguished from the standard Unicode representation of the individual characters, which are processed separately by modern text layout engines.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD27
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴧ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD27
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD27
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd27

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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