U+FD65 "ﵥ" Arabic Ligature Sad with Hah with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD65 "ﵥ" Arabic Ligature Sad with Hah with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the consonant Ṣād (ص), followed by two Hā’ letters (ح), specifically in the initial form. This character is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and was encoded to support the precise, decorative, and often cursive rendering of complex letter sequences in traditional Arabic calligraphy. It is primarily utilized in contexts where textual fidelity and aesthetic continuity are required, such as in religious manuscripts, historical document encoding, or high-quality digital typesetting for languages like Arabic, Urdu, and Persian.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD65
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Sad with Hah with Hah 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 "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵥ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵥ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD65
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD65
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd65

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 "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"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