U+FD2E "ﴮ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD2E "ﴮ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Initial Form is a typographic presentation form used in the Arabic script to represent a specific initial, or word-starting, ligature of two letters. This character combines the letter Sheen (ش) with Hah (ح) into a single glyph, which is primarily employed in historical or stylistic texts and for precise digital rendering. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range designed for compatibility with legacy systems, and is typically used in contexts where joined initial forms are needed to preserve the visual integrity of traditional calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD2E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah 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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd2e |
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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| 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 |