U+FD6A "ﵪ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD6A "ﵪ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah Final Form is a special typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, representing a combined glyph for the sequence of letters sheen (ش), meem (م), and khah (خ) in their final positional form, which occurs at the end of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used in certain calligraphic styles or historical texts to simplify or beautify the connecting shape of these three characters when written together in a single cursive unit. Its encoding preserves a distinct visual form that may be employed in specialized typesetting or digital representations of classical Arabic manuscripts, ensuring the accurate display of complex script features that are not handled by standard character composition.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD6A
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah 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
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵪ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵪ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD6A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD6A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd6a

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 "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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