U+FDD8 "﷘" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character

U+FDD8 "﷘" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is part of a special range reserved for Arabic presentation forms, primarily for compatibility with older text encoding systems; this specific code point, like others in the same block, does not represent a standard Arabic letter or word but is instead a blank or non-printing control character known as an "Arabic sign empty centre," which was historically used in word processing contexts to indicate a placeholder or for alignment purposes in complex Arabic script rendering.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FDD8
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 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFDD8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FDD8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufdd8

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