U+FD08 "ﴈ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD08 "ﴈ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature from the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, combining the letter ḍād (ض) with the letter yā’ (ي) in their isolated forms to create a single decorative glyph. Historically, such ligatures were employed in traditional calligraphy and typesetting to enhance visual harmony and save space in manuscripts, particularly in Quranic or classical Arabic texts. In modern digital use, this character is considered a legacy encoding artifact, as standard Unicode Arabic encoding typically represents the two separate characters (ض and ي) and relies on font-level ligation rather than a dedicated codepoint. Although preserved for compatibility with older systems, it is not recommended for new content due to potential rendering issues across platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD08
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Dad with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴈ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴈ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD08
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd08

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter