U+FD2D "ﴭ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FD2D "ﴭ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combined initial forms of the Arabic letters sheen (ش) and jeem (ج) as they appear when connected at the beginning of a word. This specific form is used in stylized or calligraphic text to create a compact and elegant representation of the two adjacent letters, primarily in legacy Arabic script systems or documents that require precise visual shaping for traditional typesetting. It is not a standard letter sequence in modern digital Arabic text, which instead relies on dynamic font shaping to combine characters, but it serves as a historic or specialized character for rendering the initial sheen-jeem ligature in Unicode encoded text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD2D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Initial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Initial
Decomposition Mapping	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD2D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD2D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd2d

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 "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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