U+FDD7 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FDD7 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a special markup character within the Arabic script block, specifically part of the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" range which contains contextual forms and ligatures for typographical use. This character is not intended for normal text representation but rather serves as an invisible formatting tool, often used by legacy rendering systems to manipulate glyph shaping or indicate specific presentation features. Like all characters in the U+FDD0 to U+FDEF range, it is classified as a non-displaying, deprecated element that may be ignored by modern text processors in favor of dynamic shaping algorithms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDD7 |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDD7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDD7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdd7 |
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 |