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 Its inclusion supports digital text processing and typographic fidelity for religious and historical documents where such ligatures are conventional.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
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