U+0610 "ؐ" Arabic Sign Sallallahou Alayhe Wassallam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0610 "ؐ" Arabic Sign Sallallahou Alayhe Wassallam is a combining mark used in Arabic script, specifically within certain religious and calligraphic contexts, to represent the phrase "Sallallahou Alayhe Wassallam," which means "Peace and blessings of God be upon him." This character is typically placed above or near the name of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic texts as an honorific abbreviation, functioning as a textual shorthand rather than a standalone letter. It belongs to the Arabic block of Unicode and is classified as a non-spacing mark, meaning it combines with adjacent base characters to indicate reverence while preserving the flow of the written line.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0610 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Arabic Sign Sallallahou Alayhe Wassallam |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0610 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000610 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0610 |