U+FEB5 "ﺵ" Arabic Letter Sheen Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﺵ
U+FEB5 "ﺵ" Arabic Letter Sheen Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "sheen," which represents the sound "sh" as in the English word "shin." This specific isolated form is used when the letter appears alone at the beginning of a word or following a non-connecting character, distinguished from its initial, medial, and final variants by its unique shape. The character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, designed to support the complex cursive and contextual shaping requirements of Arabic script in digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEB5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Sheen Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Sheen |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufeb5 |
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 |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen |
| 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 |