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