U+FD36 "ﴶ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FD36 "ﴶ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah Medial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters "seen" (س) and "khah" (خ) when they appear in the medial position within a word, where both letters are connected. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized glyphs designed for precise calligraphic and typographic rendering, particularly in historical or high-quality printed texts. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate representation of certain traditional Arabic writing styles where such ligatures are employed for aesthetic or legibility purposes, though it is less commonly used in modern digital typography compared to standard separate letter forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD36
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴶ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴶ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD36
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd36

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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