U+FD6B "ﵫ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﵫ
U+FD6B "ﵫ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, specifically representing a combined form of the letters sheen (ش), meem (م), and khah (خ) as they appear at the beginning of a word. This ligature is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and text rendering to create a more aesthetically pleasing or compact representation of the three consonants when they occur in sequence, particularly in religious or formal texts. It is part of a set of presentation forms that aid in the proper visual display of Arabic script in digital environments, ensuring that the connected shapes align correctly according to calligraphic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD6B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Khah 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 "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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD6B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd6b |