U+FD5E "ﵞ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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