U+FDFD "﷽" Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem Unicode Character

U+FDFD "﷽" Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem is a single typographic glyph that represents the entire Islamic invocation "Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim," meaning "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful." This character, encoded in the Unicode standard for compatibility with Arabic script, allows for the compact representation of this common phrase in digital text, often used at the beginning of books, chapters, or formal documents in Islamic cultures. As a ligature, it combines multiple Arabic letters into one visual form, preserving the phrase's spiritual and cultural significance while facilitating efficient text rendering in computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FDFD
Version Added	4.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﷽
HTML Hex Encoding	﷽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB7 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFDFD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FDFD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufdfd

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic Thaana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other