U+FD32 "ﴲ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD32 "ﴲ" Arabic Ligature Sheh with Heh Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letter "Sheen" (ش) followed by "Heh" (ه) in their initial forms when they appear at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to encode contextual glyph variants for compatibility with older text processing systems, allowing for the precise rendering of complex cursive shapes that would otherwise be formed dynamically by a font. While it facilitates faithful reproduction of historical or precomposed digital texts, modern Unicode-aware applications typically omit such ligatures in favor of standard combining forms, making U+FD32 less common in contemporary usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD32
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Heh 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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD32
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD32
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd32

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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
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