U+FE7D "ﹽ" Arabic Shadda Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FE7D "ﹽ" Arabic Shadda Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic diacritic shadda, which indicates the doubling or gemination of a consonant, specifically designed to appear in the middle of a word within a cursive Arabic text rendering context to ensure proper ligature and connection with surrounding characters. Unlike the standalone or initial forms, this medial variant seamlessly attaches to both preceding and following letters, maintaining the visual flow of Arabic script in digital typography. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is primarily used for fine-tuned text display in legacy systems or specialized fonts, though modern Unicode encoding typically prefers the generic combining shadda (U+0651) for general use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE7D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Shadda Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Arabic Shaddah on Tatweel
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﹽ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﹽ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE7D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE7D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe7d

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	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda
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