U+FD37 "ﴷ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FD37 "ﴷ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem Medial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, where the letters sheen (ش) and jeem (ج) are combined in their medial (middle-of-word) shapes to form a single glyph for streamlined calligraphy or typesetting. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures and contextual forms that are not standard in basic Unicode Arabic encoding but are employed for precise rendering in historical texts or elegant print designs. Its use is primarily aesthetic, preserving traditional scribal practices while ensuring correct visual alignment within connected Arabic writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD37
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem 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	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴷ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD37
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD37
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd37

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 "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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