U+FD28 "ﴨ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FD28 "ﴨ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature that combines the Arabic letters sheen (ش) and meem (م) into a single glyph, specifically designed for the final position of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains many such ligatures used to replicate the calligraphic styles of traditional Arabic script in digital text. Its use is primarily aesthetic and stylistic, helping to maintain the fluid, connected appearance of handwriting or classic typesetting, though it is not essential for modern standard Arabic text representation and is typically substituted by the sequence of separate final-form characters in Unicode's standard encoding.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+FD28
Name
Arabic Ligature Sheen with Meem Final Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﴨ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﴨ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB4 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFD28
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FD28
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufd28
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic