U+FDEE "﷮" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character

U+FDEE "﷮" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a single character that represents a typographic ligature for the Arabic phrase "Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam," which translates to "peace be upon him" and is commonly used after the name of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic texts. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support the specific ligature and contextual forms required for Arabic calligraphy and typesetting. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the efficient representation of this common religious honorific as a single glyph, rather than as a sequence of separate Arabic letters, thereby preserving the traditional calligraphic appearance in digital documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FDEE
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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFDEE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FDEE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufdee

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