U+FD39 "ﴹ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD39 "ﴹ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Khah Medial Form is a typographic glyph used in certain styles of Arabic script to represent a ligature of the letters sheen (ش) and khah (خ) in their medial forms, meaning they are joined within a word rather than appearing independently. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized characters designed for compatibility with older text rendering systems, particularly in Quranic or calligraphic contexts. When a word requires the sequence of a medial sheen followed by a medial khah, this single character can be employed to preserve the exact visual appearance of the joined letters, though its use is not standard for general modern Arabic text, where these letters are typically typed as separate characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD39
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sheen 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	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴹ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴹ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD39
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD39
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd39

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "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