U+FD5E "ﵞ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD5E "ﵞ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically designed for the end of a word. It combines three distinct letters: the consonant Seen (س), the consonant Jeem (ج), and the final form of Alef Maksura (ى), which represents a long vowel sound. This ligature is used within the Unicode standard to facilitate precise text rendering and typographic consistency in certain Arabic and other languages that employ the Arabic script, often for calligraphic or traditional orthographic purposes. Its inclusion allows digital systems to display the compound character as a single visual unit rather than three separate glyphs, enhancing readability and maintaining the aesthetic flow of written Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD5E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd5e |