U+FDD1 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FDD1 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a non-printing formatting code rather than a visible glyph, belonging to a special range of characters used for controlling the shaping and positioning of Arabic script during text processing. Specifically, it is assigned as a "No Break" control, meaning it prevents the automatic line breaking of the adjacent Arabic letters, forcing them to remain together on the same line. This character resides in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains a variety of contextual glyph variants and control codes designed for complex script rendering, though U+FDD1 itself is never intended for visible display in normal text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDD1 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Unassigned |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |  |
| HTML Hex Encoding |  |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDD1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDD1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdd1 |
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 | Unknown |
| Script | Unknown |
| Script Extensions | Unknown |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |
| Noncharacter Code Point | Yes |