U+FD30 "ﴰ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD30 "ﴰ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Initial Form is a typographic variant used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a ligature that combines the letters sheen (ش) and meem (م) at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes complex glyph shapes for advanced text rendering, often employed in historical calligraphy, religious texts, or decorative writing where cursive elegance and space optimization are prioritized. While it visually signifies the joined initial form of these two consonants, it is primarily intended for display purposes and should not be used for general text interchange; the standard Unicode representation of the sequence "ش" followed by "م" is preferred for digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD30
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD30
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD30
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd30

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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
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