U+FD35 "ﴵ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah Medial Form Unicode Character
U+FD35 "ﴵ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah Medial Form is a presentation form glyph used in the Arabic writing system to represent a specific typographic ligature that combines the letter Seen (س) with the letter Hah (ح) in their medial forms. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is intended for use in legacy text rendering or specialized calligraphic contexts, as it encodes a single visual unit where the two letters are joined together seamlessly according to traditional cursive rules. The ligature appears when Seen and Hah occur consecutively within a word and both take their medial shape, which typically happens when each is surrounded by other connecting letters. While modern Unicode text processing often uses standard Arabic characters with automatic shaping, U+FD35 provides a fixed glyph for situations requiring exact visual representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD35 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah Medial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD35 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD35 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd35 |
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 | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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 |