U+FD40 "﵀" Arabic Ligature Rahimahu Allaah Unicode Character

U+FD40 "﵀" Arabic Ligature Rahimahu Allaah is a typographic ligature representing the Arabic devotional phrase "Rahimahu Allaah," which translates to "May God have mercy on him," commonly used in Islamic texts following the mention of a deceased pious individual. This specific ligature combines the necessary Arabic letters into a single, stylized glyph for efficient and aesthetically harmonious typesetting, particularly in traditional Quranic or religious manuscripts. It belongs to the Unicode block for Arabic Presentation Forms-A, which codifies these calligraphic combinations to preserve the visual integrity and conventions of Arabic script in digital environments, ensuring that the phrase appears as a unified, respectful symbol during text display and printing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD40
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Rahimahu Allaah
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 0xB5 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD40
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd40

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