U+FBCD "" Arabic Ligature Hafizahu Allaahu Taaalaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FBCD "" Arabic Ligature Hafizahu Allaahu Taaalaa is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script that represents a complete pious phrase meaning "may God preserve him, the Most High," often appended after the name of a revered Islamic figure or scholar. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures for traditional calligraphy and manuscript writing, intended to encode commonly combined letter sequences as a single visual unit. While modern Unicode usage generally discourages separate encoding of such presentation forms, this ligature remains historically significant for faithful reproduction of classical texts and religious manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBCD |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Hafizahu 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 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbcd |
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 |