U+FDF6 "ﷶ" Arabic Ligature Rasoul Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﷶ
U+FDF6 "ﷶ" Arabic Ligature Rasoul Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script calligraphy to represent the word "Rasoul" (رسول), meaning "messenger" in Arabic, which often refers to the Prophet Muhammad in religious texts. This character combines the letters Rā, Sīn, Wāw, and Lām into a single, compact glyph for elegant writing or formatting. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which is designed primarily for compatibility with older software and complex text rendering. While the ligature is rarely needed in modern digital Arabic text, it remains significant for reproducing classical manuscripts or decorative religious phrases.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDF6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Rasoul 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 | "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﷶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﷶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDF6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDF6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdf6 |