[asibahi]

Slightly related: I am an Arab who speaks Arabic and reads Arabic and the only place I ever see the unicode character ﷽ is by programmers giving an example of "unicode is too hard".

Perhaps as a graphical element at the beginning of books, too.

It is a part of the Arabic Presentation Forms block which explicitly is for supporting legacy encodings and should not be used.

[dyauspitr]

The whole phrase is one character?

[pekim]

It's one codepoint, U+FDFD, with the name "Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem".

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FDFD

[asibahi]

It’s one code point that’s (in theory) meant to hold the ligature of the whole phrase. As it stands it’s only used as a demonstration of Unicode difficulty.

[goodmythical]

﷽ translates to "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful."

But it is indeed just the single character (U+FDFD)