U+FDF7 "ﷷ" Arabic Ligature Alayhe Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﷷ
U+FDF7 "ﷷ" Arabic Ligature Alayhe Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the phrase "alayhe" (meaning "upon him") written as a single connected glyph. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures for calligraphic and religious texts, particularly those involving honorific phrases. This character is encoded to support traditional and digital typesetting where such ligatures appear in isolation, typically found in liturgical or classical writings. Its inclusion facilitates accurate reproduction of Arabic manuscript traditions in modern computing environments, preserving the visual and stylistic conventions of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDF7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Alayhe 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 | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﷷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﷷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDF7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDF7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdf7 |