U+FDCF "﷏" Arabic Ligature Salaamuhu Alaynaa Unicode Character

U+FDCF "﷏" Arabic Ligature Salaamuhu Alaynaa is a specialized typographic glyph used primarily in religious and calligraphic Arabic texts to represent the phrase "peace be upon us" in a single, compact ligature. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was encoded to accommodate traditional and decorative writing styles that merge multiple letters and diacritics into a unified shape. The phrase itself is a variant of the Islamic greeting "as-salamu alaykum," and the ligature streamlines its rendering in contexts such as scripture or devotional literature where space or aesthetic continuity is valued. While not commonly used in modern digital communication, it remains significant for preserving historical printing and manuscript practices in Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FDCF
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Salaamuhu Alaynaa
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 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFDCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FDCF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufdcf

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