U+0634 "ش" Arabic Letter Sheen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0634 "ش" Arabic Letter Sheen is the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing the sound equivalent to the English "sh" as in "ship." In Arabic script, it is a consonant derived from the letter seen (س) with the addition of three dots above its crescent-shaped body, and its position in a word determines its written form through initial, medial, final, and isolated variants. The letter Sheen plays a significant role not only in Arabic but also in other languages that use the Arabic script, such as Persian, Urdu, and Pashto, where it retains a similar phonetic value.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0634
Name
Arabic Letter Sheen
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ش
HTML Hex Encoding
ش
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD8 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0634
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000634
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0634
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic