U+FD68 "ﵨ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﵨ
U+FD68 "ﵨ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah with Meem Initial Form is a complex typographic glyph found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which represents a calligraphic ligature combining the Arabic letters Sheen (ش), Hah (ح), and Meem (م) in their initial forms. This ligature is used in certain styles of Arabic script, particularly in historical or decorative contexts, to streamline the appearance of the three consecutive letters at the beginning of a word by merging them into a single, connected shape. While it enhances visual harmony in traditional writing, this character is typically employed in specialized rendering systems rather than for modern standard text, and it requires appropriate font support for accurate display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD68 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen with Hah with Meem 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 | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd68 |