U+FDE5 "﷥" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character

U+FDE5 "﷥" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a specific glyph intended for the complex, context-sensitive shaping required in certain traditional or calligraphic styles of the Arabic script. It is used exclusively in the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" block, which contains ligatures and contextual forms that are not part of the standard Arabic block and are primarily for backward compatibility with older text encoding standards. While not commonly used in contemporary digital text, this character represents a specific ligated combination of multiple Arabic letters, often found in historic or religious manuscripts where precise visual rendering is prioritized over modern normalization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FDE5
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 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFDE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FDE5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufde5

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