U+FDD9 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+FDD9 "" Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a non-typographic code point that serves as a formatting control character, specifically an "Arabic Ligature Not a Letter for Use in the Sign of the Stop" as designated in the Unicode standard. It is part of the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" block, which contains characters intended for historical, calligraphic, or specialized text display, rather than for ordinary textual content. This particular code point is not a real letter or word and is generally not used in standard Arabic writing; it exists primarily for compatibility with legacy encodings or for advanced typographic shaping contexts where a stop sign or placeholder is needed without representing actual linguistic content.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding

HTML Hex Encoding

UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB7 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFDD9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FDD9
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufdd9