U+FD5C "ﵜ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD5C "ﵜ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, used to combine the letters Seen (س), Hah (ح), and Jeem (ج) into a single, stylized initial form. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes various contextual shapes for calligraphic and traditional text rendering. It is primarily employed in historical or decorative contexts, such as in Quranic manuscripts or classical literature, to maintain a fluid, connected script that enhances readability and aesthetic harmony. Modern digital fonts that support advanced Arabic typography may include this character to accurately reproduce classical calligraphy, though it is not commonly used in contemporary plain text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD5C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah with Jeem Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd5c |