U+FD4E "﵎" Arabic Ligature Tabaaraka Wa-Taaalaa Unicode Character

U+FD4E "﵎" Arabic Ligature Tabaaraka Wa-Taaalaa is a typographic ligature that represents the Arabic phrase "تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى" (tabaaraka wa-taaalaa), a reverential Islamic invocation meaning "blessed and exalted is He," which is traditionally recited after the name of God. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block of the Unicode standard, designed to preserve the joined, calligraphic appearance of the phrase as it would appear in printed or handwritten Arabic script. It is used primarily in religious texts, digital typography, and software requiring accurate display of classical Arabic inscriptions, though its usage is limited to specific contexts where this precise ligature is needed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD4E
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Tabaaraka Wa-Taaalaa
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 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD4E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD4E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd4e

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