U+FDFF "﷿" Arabic Ligature Azza Wa Jall Unicode Character

U+FDFF "﷿" Arabic Ligature Azza Wa Jall is a typographic ligature representing an honorific phrase used in Islamic tradition, specifically the Arabic expression "عز وجل" (ʿazza wa jall), meaning "Mighty and Majestic," which Muslims often recite after mentioning the name of God (Allah) to show reverence. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, designed to preserve the traditional calligraphic rendering of common religious phrases as a single glyph for compatibility with legacy text and specialized digital fonts. Its inclusion allows for the accurate representation of this compact, symbolic ligature in digital documents, though its use is largely confined to contexts where precise theological phrasing or historical script styles are required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FDFF
Version Added	14.0
Name	Arabic Ligature Azza Wa Jall
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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFDFF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FDFF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufdff

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