U+FD2F "ﴯ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FD2F "ﴯ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Initial Form is a typographic compound glyph used in certain styles of Arabic script, specifically representing a two character ligature where the letter Sheen (ش) is joined to the letter Khah (خ) in their initial (word beginning) forms. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms A block, which contains precomposed ligatures for improved visual precision in text rendering, particularly in calligraphic or classic typesetting contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate representation of traditional Arabic writing without requiring dynamic shaping, ensuring that the distinct connection between Sheen and Khah at the start of a word is preserved across digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD2F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD2F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD2F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd2f

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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