U+FD28 "ﴨ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

U+FD28 "ﴨ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature that combines the Arabic letters sheen (ش) and meem (م) into a single glyph, specifically designed for the final position of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains many such ligatures used to replicate the calligraphic styles of traditional Arabic script in digital text. Its use is primarily aesthetic and stylistic, helping to maintain the fluid, connected appearance of handwriting or classic typesetting, though it is not essential for modern standard Arabic text representation and is typically substituted by the sequence of separate final-form characters in Unicode's standard encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD28
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴨ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴨ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD28
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD28
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd28

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