U+FD2A "ﴪ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Reh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD2A "ﴪ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Reh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the letters "seen" (س) and "reh" (ر) into a single joined glyph that appears at the end of a word when the ligature is employed. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains various contextual forms for improved typographic aesthetics and calligraphic styling, though its use is optional and depends on specific font rendering and scholarly or decorative contexts. The ligature represents a conventional joining of these two letters, where the "seen" assumes its initial or medial shape and the "reh" takes its final isolated form, creating a seamless visual connection for readers fluent in Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD2A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen 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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴪ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴪ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD2A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD2A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd2a

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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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