U+10ED8 "𐻘" Arabic Ligature Nawwara Allaahu Marqadah Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐻘

U+10ED8 "𐻘" Arabic Ligature Nawwara Allaahu Marqadah is a typographic ligature from the Arabic script block, specifically designed to represent the pious phrase "نوّر الله مرقده" which translates to "May God illuminate his resting place," a blessing often invoked for deceased individuals within Islamic tradition. This character encodes a complex combination of Arabic letters into a single glyph, streamlining its use in digital texts where such honorifics are common. It belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and was added to Unicode to support historical and religious documentation, preserving the cursive elegance of Arabic calligraphy while facilitating consistent rendering across modern software and platforms. Its inclusion helps maintain accurate representation of classical and contemporary Arabic religious writings in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+10ED8
Version Added 17.0
Name Arabic Ligature Nawwara Allaahu Marqadah
Block Arabic Extended-C
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐻘
HTML Hex Encoding 𐻘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBB 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDED8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010ED8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\uded8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other