U+FD48 "﵈" Arabic Ligature Alayhim as-Salaam Unicode Character

U+FD48 "﵈" Arabic Ligature Alayhim as-Salaam is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, specifically composed to represent the honorific phrase "Alayhim as-Salaam," which translates to "upon them be peace." This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is employed in religious and formal texts to combine multiple Arabic letters into a single glyph, streamlining the visual presentation of this common blessing often applied to prophets and revered figures in Islamic tradition. The character preserves the precise calligraphic form of the phrase, ensuring that the honorific is rendered with the appropriate aesthetic and cultural significance in digital and printed documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD48
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Alayhim as-Salaam
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 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD48
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD48
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd48

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