U+FBC3 "" Arabic Ligature Jalla Wa-Alaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FBC3 "" Arabic Ligature Jalla Wa-Alaa is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script to represent the phrase "جَلَّ وَعَلَا" (jalla wa-‘alā), which translates to "majestic and exalted" or "glorious and high." This ligature is traditionally employed in Islamic calligraphy and text as a reverential expression often appended to the name of Allah, serving as a compact, decorative single glyph that maintains the sacred honorific's visual integrity while facilitating smoother typesetting in religious and scholarly documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBC3 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Jalla Wa-Alaa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbc3 |
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 |