U+0644 "ل" Arabic Letter Lam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0644 "ل" Arabic Letter Lam is the twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet and represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound, similar to the English "l", though it can be pronounced as a dark or velarized "l" in certain dialectal and classical contexts. It is a key consonant in the Arabic script, appearing frequently in both Classical and Modern Standard Arabic, and participates in the formation of the definite article "al-" when attached to nouns, as well as in the word for God, "Allah" (الله), which involves a unique emphatic pronunciation of the Lam. As a connecting letter, it joins with preceding and following characters in cursive Arabic writing, with distinct initial, medial, final, and isolated forms depending on its position in a word.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ل |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ل |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xD9 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0644 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000644 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0644 |
Unicode Properties