U+FEB7 "ﺷ" Arabic Letter Sheen Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FEB7 "ﺷ" Arabic Letter Sheen Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter sheen (ش), specifically designed to appear at the beginning of a word within a cursive Arabic text rendering. Unlike the isolated or medial forms, this glyph features a distinct shape with a long connecting tail on the right side, allowing it to seamlessly join the preceding character in a word while maintaining the three characteristic dots above the main body. It is encoded as part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, primarily intended for legacy or compatibility use with older text processing systems, as modern Unicode standards generally rely on dynamic shaping algorithms rather than these precomposed positional variants.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEB7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Sheen Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Initial Arabic Sheen
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Initial
Decomposition Mapping	"ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺷ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEB7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEB7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufeb7

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