U+FD32 "" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FD32 "ﴲ" Arabic Ligature Sheh with Heh Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letter "Sheen" (ش) followed by "Heh" (ه) in their initial forms when they appear at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to encode contextual glyph variants for compatibility with older text processing systems, allowing for the precise rendering of complex cursive shapes that would otherwise be formed dynamically by a font. While it facilitates faithful reproduction of historical or precomposed digital texts, modern Unicode-aware applications typically omit such ligatures in favor of standard combining forms, making U+FD32 less common in contemporary usage.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﴲ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﴲ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB4 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFD32
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FD32
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufd32