U+FD38 "ﴸ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FD38 "ﴸ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah Medial Form is a typographic glyph used in Arabic script calligraphy and text rendering to represent the joined medial form of the letters sheen (ش) and hah (ح) in a specific ligature. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual forms and ligatures designed for compatibility with older text encoding systems and for aesthetic purposes in high-quality typesetting. It is not a standard character for everyday Arabic writing, but rather a specialized presentation form that appears when the two letters are combined in the middle of a word, ensuring proper visual connection and adherence to traditional calligraphic styles.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD38
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen 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	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD38
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD38
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd38

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "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