U+FD29 "ﴩ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Reh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FD29 "ﴩ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Reh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters Sheen (ش) and Reh (ر) in their final positional forms, where Sheen appears at the end of a word and Reh follows in a connected cursive style. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed primarily for compatibility with older text rendering systems that required precomposed forms rather than dynamic joining. While it is now largely obsolete in modern Unicode text processing, which relies on automatic shaping, U+FD29 may still appear in documents or fonts that use historical digital encoding. Its visual appearance varies by font but typically shows the distinctive three dotted top of Sheen flowing into the curved descender of Reh, creating a compact continuous shape.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD29
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Reh 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 "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD29
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD29
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd29

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