U+FDEA "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FDEA "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a compatibility character that represents the Arabic phrase "صلى الله عليه وسلم" (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam), meaning "peace be upon him" in English, and it is used in Islamic texts as a ligature or abbreviated form for this common honorific expression. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized glyphs designed for compatibility with older text encoding systems, and it is not intended for use in modern plain text where the full Arabic words are preferred.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDEA |
| 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDEA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdea |
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 |