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by dyauspitr 61 days ago
The whole phrase is one character?
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It's one codepoint, U+FDFD, with the name "Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem".

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

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

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