U+FDFE "﷾" Arabic Ligature Subhaanahu Wa Taaalaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
﷾
U+FDFE "﷾" Arabic Ligature Subhaanahu Wa Taaalaa is a typographic ligature that represents the Arabic phrase "سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى" (Subḥānahu wa Taʿālā), which translates to "Glorified and Exalted is He" and is a traditional Islamic honorific used after the name of Allah to express reverence and exaltation. This character was added to Unicode to support advanced Arabic text rendering, allowing the entire phrase to be displayed as a single glyph in fonts that include this ligature, thereby facilitating more accurate and aesthetically pleasing representations of religious texts in digital formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDFE |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Subhaanahu Wa Taaalaa |
| 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDFE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufdfe |
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 |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |