Unicode Character "﷽" (U+FDFD)

The character ﷽ (Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FDFD. It is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (April, 2003). It is HTML encoded as ﷽.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Unicode Codepoint U+FDFD
Unicode Version 4.0 (April, 2003)
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Arabic
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+FDFD Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﷽
HTML (hex) ﷽
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%B7%BD
CSS \00FDFD
JavaScript, JSON \uFDFD
C, C++, Java \uFDFD
Python \uFDFD
Rust \u{FDFD}
Ruby \uFDFD

How to type "﷽"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xB7 0xBD
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFDFD
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FDFD

References