U+FD6D "ﵭ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FD6D "ﵭ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem with Meem Initial Form is a special typographic representation found in the Arabic script block, where it encodes a connected sequence of three characters: ش (sheen) followed by two م (meem) letters, all combined into a single glyph for initial word positions. This ligature was included in Unicode to support the accurate rendering of classical and modern Arabic texts, where such complex joins are used to maintain calligraphic consistency and readability, particularly in religious, literary, or formal documents. It appears as a cursive formation with the sheen's distinctive three dots above its arch and the two meems seamlessly attached, reflecting the historical tradition of Arabic calligraphy that prioritizes fluid letter connections.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD6D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem 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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﵭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﵭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB5 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD6D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD6D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd6d |