U+FDD5 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FDD5 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a non-printing code point within a reserved block intended for contextual glyph shaping variants in Arabic script rendering. It does not represent an actual letter or word, but rather serves as a control character or placeholder for internal text processing systems. Due to its status within a range marked as “not recommended for interchange,” it is typically invisible to users and should not appear in standard plain text documents or web content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDD5 |
| 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 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDD5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdd5 |
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 |