U+FD4C "﵌" Arabic Ligature Sallallahu Alayhi Waaalihee Wa-Sallam Unicode Character

U+FD4C "﵌" Arabic Ligature Sallallahu Alayhi Waaalihee Wa-Sallam is a typographic representation of the Islamic honorific phrase "Sallallahu Alayhi Waaalihee Wa-Sallam," which translates to "May God's peace and blessings be upon him and his family." This ligature is used in Arabic script to compactly express the traditional blessing invoked after mentioning the Prophet Muhammad's name in written texts, reflecting reverence and conciseness in religious calligraphy. It falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block of Unicode, designed to support complex script rendering for digital and printed Islamic literature. The character is not commonly used in modern standard Arabic text but appears in specialized religious documents, Quranic commentaries, and Hadith collections where space-saving and aesthetic fidelity to handwritten traditions are valued.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD4C
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Sallallahu Alayhi Waaalihee Wa-Sallam
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 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD4C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD4C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd4c

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