U+FD07 "ﴇ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FD07 "ﴇ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combined visual appearance of the Arabic letter Dad (ض) followed by the final form of Alef Maksura (ى). This ligature is designed for isolated display, meaning it appears as a single connected glyph rather than two separate characters, to enhance the aesthetic flow and historical calligraphic style of Arabic script in certain digital fonts or legacy text contexts. While it encodes a specific graphic shape, modern Unicode usage recommends using the standard sequence of U+0636 (ض) and U+0649 (ى) for general text, as this ligature is primarily intended for backward compatibility with older systems rather than for new content creation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD07 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Dad with Alef Maksura Isolated Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD07 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD07 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd07 |