U+FD65 "ﵥ" Arabic Ligature Sad with Hah with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﵥ
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utilized in contexts where textual fidelity and aesthetic continuity are required, such as in religious manuscripts, historical document encoding, or high-quality digital typesetting for languages like Arabic, Urdu, and Persian.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 |