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

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

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.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+FEB7
Name
Arabic Letter Sheen Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Initial Arabic Sheen
Decomposition Mapping

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