U+FDF8 ARABIC LIGATURE WASALLAM ISOLATED FORM
U+FDF8 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block 
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is a Isolated composition of the glyphs 
. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Arabic Letter and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+FDF8 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has
type OLetter for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Arabic phrase ʿalayhi as-salām (عليه السلام), translating to "peace be upon him" is a durood or conventionally complimentary phrase attached to the names of the prophets in Islam. The English phrase is also given the abbreviation pbuh in writing. An extended variant of the phrase reads ṣalla llāhu ʿalay-hi wa-alehe-wa-sallam (Arabic: صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم) "may Allah honour him and grant him peace", and it is often abbreviated saw in writing in an English-language context. The Arabic phrase is given the name ṣalawāt. The phrase is encoded as a ligature at Unicode codepoint U+FDFA ﷺ arabic ligature sallallahou alayhe wasallam
Some Islamic scholars have voiced disagreement with the practice of abbreviating these phrases, arguing that it demonstrates laziness and a lack of respect.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65016 |
| UTF-8 | EF B7 B8 |
| UTF-16 | FD F8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FD F8 |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%B7%B8 |
| HTML-Escape | ﷸ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ï·¸ |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 1.1 |
| Unicode Name (na) | ARABIC LIGATURE WASALLAM ISOLATED FORM |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
| Block (blk) | Arabic_PF_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) |
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| Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
 |
| Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
|
| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
|
| Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
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| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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| Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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| Case Folding (cf) |
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| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
| Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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| Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
| Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
| East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
| InMC (InMC) | — |
| Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
| Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
| 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) |
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| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | No |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | No |
| Numeric Type (nt) | None |
| Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | OLetter |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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| Script Extension (scx) | Arabic |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
| STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
| Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
| Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
| Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
| Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
| 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) | ✔ |