U+FD43 "﵃" Arabic Ligature Radi Allaahu Anhum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
﵃
U+FD43 "﵃" Arabic Ligature Radi Allaahu Anhum is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script to represent the honorific phrase "Radi Allaahu Anhum," which translates to "May Allah be pleased with them" and is commonly invoked after mentioning the names of the Sahaba (the companions of the Prophet Muhammad) in Islamic texts. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to provide a single glyph for the phrase to streamline typesetting in religious and scholarly works. It should be noted that this ligature is a presentation form intended for compatibility and legacy use, and for modern digital text, Unicode recommends utilizing standard Arabic characters with appropriate combining marks or separate letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD43 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Radi Allaahu Anhum |
| 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd43 |
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 |