Arabic Shadda Medial Form
Copy and paste the arabic shadda medial form symbol ﹽ (U+FE7D) instantly. Part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B Unicode block.
Works everywhere: websites, documents, social media, code editors
Character Codes
About This Symbol
- Name
- Arabic Shadda Medial Form
- Unicode Block
- Arabic Presentation Forms-B
- Code Point
- U+FE7D
The Arabic Shadda Medial Form (ﹽ) is a Unicode character assigned to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block at code point U+FE7D. This block contains characters used across a variety of applications including technical documentation, web development, mathematical notation, and everyday digital communication. The arabic shadda medial form symbol can be inserted directly into text or referenced through its HTML entity, CSS code, or JavaScript escape sequence for use in websites and applications.
How to Use
- 1.Click "Copy Symbol" above to copy ﹽ to your clipboard
- 2.Paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on Mac)
- 3.Or use the HTML entity
ﹽin your code - 4.For CSS, use
\FE7Dwith the content property
Understanding Arabic Shadda Medial Form
The arabic shadda medial form (ﹽ), registered at U+FE7D in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, is one of the many characters that make digital typography expressive and precise. Its standardized encoding means that any system supporting Unicode can display it faithfully without requiring special fonts or plugins.
The hexadecimal value FE7D places this character at decimal position 65149 in the Unicode table. At this position, the character falls 13 positions past the nearest hex boundary, a detail relevant for font engineers mapping glyph tables. For practical use, ﹽ in HTML or \u{FE7D} in JavaScript are the most common insertion methods.
Known by its descriptive name referencing "arabic shadda," this character serves a specific role that generic symbols cannot fill. It appears in specialized typography, technical standards, and digital content where precision in symbol choice directly affects meaning or layout.
About Arabic
Arabic script flows from right to left in connected, cursive forms where each letter takes up to four contextual shapes depending on its position within a word. This intrinsic calligraphic quality makes Arabic one of the most visually complex scripts to render digitally. Beyond the Arabic language itself, this script family serves Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, and dozens of other languages across a vast geographic span from Morocco to Malaysia.
Arabic script evolved from the Nabataean alphabet, itself derived from Aramaic, around the 4th century CE. The rise of Islam in the 7th century transformed Arabic into one of the world's most widespread writing systems. Calligraphy became the supreme art form in Islamic culture, with distinct styles — Kufic, Naskh, Thuluth, Nastaliq — serving different functions from Quranic manuscripts to administrative documents. Unicode's Arabic encoding spans seven blocks because the script's contextual shaping, presentation forms, and extended character needs for non-Arabic languages demanded careful organization. The presentation forms blocks (A and B) preserve compatibility with older encodings that stored pre-shaped glyphs.
Common Uses
- •Digital text for Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and related languages
- •Quranic text applications and Islamic scholarly publishing
- •Bidirectional text rendering in multilingual documents
- •Arabic calligraphy design and font development
- •Government and legal document systems across the Middle East
Technical Notes: Arabic rendering requires a sophisticated text shaping engine (like HarfBuzz) that selects the correct contextual form for each letter, applies mandatory ligatures (particularly the lam-alef combination), and handles the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm for mixed Arabic-Latin text. The Arabic Presentation Forms blocks are considered legacy — modern systems store text using the base Arabic block and rely on shaping engines for display. The extended blocks (A, B, C) add characters needed for languages like Sindhi, Kashmiri, and various African languages that adopted Arabic script.
Cultural Context: Arabic calligraphy holds a sacred status in Islamic art that has no direct parallel in other writing traditions. Because Islamic tradition discourages figurative art in religious contexts, calligraphy became the primary vehicle for artistic expression in mosques, manuscripts, and public architecture. The phrase 'Bismillah' (In the name of God) alone has been rendered in thousands of calligraphic variations over centuries. Digital Arabic typography faces the challenge of honoring this rich aesthetic heritage while meeting the practical demands of screen rendering, responsive design, and variable font technology.