U+FDF9 "ﷹ" Arabic Ligature Salla Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FDF9 "ﷹ" Arabic Ligature Salla Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script to represent the Arabic word "صلى" (salla), meaning "he prayed" or "may blessings be upon," often appearing in religious contexts such as invocations for the Prophet Muhammad. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures and contextual forms for advanced text rendering. Its primary function is to display the word in a compact, calligraphic style when used in isolation, preserving the traditional appearance of Arabic calligraphy in digital text. However, in modern practice, its usage is limited as standard Unicode Arabic characters and font shaping are generally preferred for flexibility and compatibility across different systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDF9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Salla 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﷹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﷹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB7 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdf9 |