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Glyph for U+FDFD
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem

U+FDFD was added in Unicode version 4.0 in 2003. 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 Symbol and is mainly used in the Arabic script. It is also used in the script Thaana.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+FDFD forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Basmala (Arabic: بَسْمَلَة, basmalah; also known by its opening words Bi-smi llāh; بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ, "In the name of God"), or Tasmiyyah (Arabic: تَسْمِيَّة), is the titular name of the Islamic phrase "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" (Arabic: بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ, bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi). It is one of the most important phrases in Islam and is used by Muslims mostly before starting "good deeds" (for instance, during daily prayer) as well as beginning of most daily actions.

It is used in over half of the constitutions of countries where Islam is the official religion or more than half of the population follows Islam, usually the first phrase in the preamble, including those of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.

It is the phrase recited before each chapter (surah) of the Qur'an – except for the ninth At-Tawbah. Muslim disagreement over whether to include the Basmala within the Quranic text reached consensus following the 1924 Cairo Edition, which included it as the first verse (āyah) of Quran chapter 1 but otherwise included it as an unnumbered line of text preceding the other relevant 112 chapters.

The Islamic Basmala appears to be related to earlier variants of the phrase appearing in Arabian inscriptions from the 5th and 6th centuries.

Representations

System Representation
65021
UTF-8 EF B7 BD
UTF-16 FD FD
UTF-32 00 00 FD FD
URL-Quoted %EF%B7%BD
HTML hex reference ﷽
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ï·½

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 4.0 (2003)
Unicode Name (na) ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Arabic
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
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) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
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) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
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
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
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) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
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) Glyph for U+FDFD Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Script Extension (scx) Thaana
Vertical Orientation (vo) R