U+FBCA "" Arabic Ligature Rahimahumaa Allaahu Taaalaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FBCA "" Arabic Ligature Rahimahumaa Allaahu Taaalaa is a presentation form character used in the Arabic script to represent a fixed typographical ligature that combines words in the phrase "Rahimahumaa Allaahu Taaalaa," meaning "May God, the Exalted, have mercy on them both" (referring to two people). This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed for compatibility with older text processing systems and specific calligraphic or religious texts where such compound glyphs appear as single units for aesthetic or stylistic reasons. It is not typically used in modern Arabic writing, which prefers separate characters, but supports faithful rendering of historical or liturgical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBCA |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Rahimahumaa Allaahu Taaalaa |
| 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 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbca |
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 |