U+FD49 "﵉" Arabic Ligature Alayhimaa as-Salaam Unicode Character

U+FD49 "﵉" Arabic Ligature Alayhimaa as-Salaam is a typographic ligature representing the Arabic phrase عَلَيْهِمَا ٱلسَّلَامُ, which translates to "peace be upon them both" and is used in Islamic texts as a honorific invocation for two individuals, typically prophets or revered figures, such as Aaron and Moses or the parents of a holy person. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is designed to render the phrase as a single, connected glyph for ease in calligraphy and typesetting, preserving the devotional and written tradition of the language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD49
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Alayhimaa 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 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD49
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD49
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd49

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