U+FDF4 "ﷴ" Arabic Ligature Mohammad Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FDF4 "ﷴ" Arabic Ligature Mohammad Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that represents the name of the Prophet Muhammad in a single, compact glyph, commonly used in Islamic calligraphy and digital text to honor the name. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, specifically designed to encode complex ligatures that appear in traditional Arabic script for aesthetic or religious purposes. Unlike standard Arabic characters, this ligature combines multiple letters into one visual unit, often used in religious texts, decorative writing, or digital environments where a concise representation of the Prophet's name is desired. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for consistent rendering across different platforms and fonts, supporting the cultural and linguistic practices of Arabic-speaking and Muslim communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDF4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Mohammad 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "د" U+062F Arabic Letter Dal |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﷴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﷴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdf4 |