Unicode Character "ﷺ" (U+FDFA)

The character ﷺ (Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FDFA. It is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ﷺ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Unicode Codepoint U+FDFA
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Arabic Letter (AL)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Arabic
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FDFA Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﷺ
HTML (hex) ﷺ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%B7%BA
CSS \00FDFA
JavaScript, JSON \uFDFA
C, C++, Java \uFDFA
Python \uFDFA
Rust \u{FDFA}
Ruby \uFDFA

How to type "ﷺ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F D F A. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F D F A. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ﷺ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ﷺ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ﷺ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xB7 0xBA
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFDFA
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FDFA

References