U+FDF5 "ﷵ" Arabic Ligature Salam Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDF5 "ﷵ" Arabic Ligature Salam Isolated Form is a typographic glyph used in Arabic script to represent the word "salam" (meaning "peace") as a single, connected ligature when it appears in its isolated form, separate from other characters. This ligature is part of the Unicode standard’s Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized shapes for calligraphic and traditional text rendering, particularly in religious or formal contexts. It functions as a visual abbreviation, allowing the word to be written compactly and elegantly, and is commonly encountered in Islamic texts, decorations, or digital typography where space or aesthetic considerations matter.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDF5
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Salam 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 "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad
"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﷵ
HTML Hex Encoding ﷵ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB7 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDF5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDF5
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdf5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad
"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad
"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter