U+FDF3 "ﷳ" Arabic Ligature Akbar Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FDF3 "ﷳ" Arabic Ligature Akbar Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that represents the Arabic word "Akbar" (meaning "Greater" or "Greatest") in its isolated form, primarily used in Islamic calligraphy and religious contexts, most famously as part of the Takbir phrase "Allahu Akbar." This character is a single glyph that combines the individual letters of the word into one compact, decorative unit, facilitating elegant and space-saving text rendering in both print and digital environments. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, a collection designed to support historical and stylistic variants of Arabic script, though modern Unicode guidance generally recommends using standard Arabic characters with proper shaping engines rather than these precomposed ligatures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDF3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Akbar Isolated Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﷳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﷳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDF3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDF3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdf3 |