Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+FDFA Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam

U+FDFA was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FB50 to U+FDFF Arabic Presentation Forms-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.

The glyph is an isolated composition of the glyphs Arabic Letter Sad, Arabic Letter Lam, Arabic Letter Alef Maksura, Space, Arabic Letter Alef, Arabic Letter Lam, Arabic Letter Lam, Arabic Letter Heh, Space, Arabic Letter Ain, Arabic Letter Lam, Arabic Letter Yeh, Arabic Letter Heh, Space, Arabic Letter Waw, Arabic Letter Seen, Arabic Letter Lam, Arabic Letter Meem. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+FDFA forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

As of Unicode 7.0 this codepoint is the one with the longest decomposition form, being composed from the above 18 other characters.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Islam uses a number of conventionally complimentary phrases praising God (e.g., Subḥānahu wa-taʿālā), or wishing good things upon Muhammad or others considered prophets and chosen figures of God (e.g., ʿalayhi s-salām). These phrases are encompassed by a number of terms that may be referred to simply as Arabic: صَلَوات, romanized: ṣalawāt, "prayers", Persian: درود, romanized: dorud, "greetings", or Urdu: درود, romanized: durūd.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	65018
UTF-8	EF B7 BA
UTF-16	FD FA
UTF-32	00 00 FD FA
URL-Quoted	%EF%B7%BA
HTML hex reference	ﷺ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ï·º
Adobe Glyph List	sallallahoualayhewasallamarabic

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Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	ARABIC LETTER SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM
Block (blk)	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category (gc)	Other Letter
Script (sc)	Arabic
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Arabic Letter
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	isolated
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Arabic Letter Sad Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Alef Maksura Space Arabic Letter Alef Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Heh Space Arabic Letter Ain Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Yeh Arabic Letter Heh Space Arabic Letter Waw Arabic Letter Seen Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Meem
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Case Folding (cf)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Arabic Letter Sad Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Alef Maksura Space Arabic Letter Alef Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Heh Space Arabic Letter Ain Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Yeh Arabic Letter Heh Space Arabic Letter Waw Arabic Letter Seen Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Arabic Letter Sad Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Alef Maksura Space Arabic Letter Alef Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Heh Space Arabic Letter Ain Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Yeh Arabic Letter Heh Space Arabic Letter Waw Arabic Letter Seen Arabic Letter Lam Arabic Letter Meem
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✔
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R