U+FD69 "ﵩ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD69 "ﵩ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, representing a connected combination of the letters Sheen (ش), Jeem (ج), and Yeh (ي) specifically in their final forms as they appear at the end of a word or syllable. This character was encoded for legacy compatibility with older Arabic text rendering systems and is typically used in calligraphic or traditional typesetting contexts where a single glyph substitutes for the three separate letters to maintain visual consistency and fluidity in cursive writing. It forms part of a set of presentation forms that preserve the complex shapes of Arabic ligatures, though modern Unicode text often renders these sequences dynamically without requiring such precomposed characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD69 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen with Jeem with Yeh 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 | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD69 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd69 |