U+FDCE "﷎" Arabic Ligature Karrama Allaahu Wajhah Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDCE "﷎" Arabic Ligature Karrama Allaahu Wajhah is a typographic ligature that represents the Arabic honorific phrase "Karrama Allaahu Wajhah," which translates to "May Allah honor his face." This phrase is traditionally used in Islamic contexts as a mark of respect for Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, and is commonly written in Arabic calligraphy. The character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, designed to facilitate the accurate rendering of a single glyph for this specific expression, avoiding the need to compose it from separate characters. Its inclusion supports digital text processing and typographic fidelity for religious and historical documents where such ligatures are conventional.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDCE
Version Added 17.0
Name Arabic Ligature Karrama Allaahu Wajhah
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 0xB7 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDCE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDCE
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdce

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