U+08A6 "ࢦ" Arabic Letter Lam with Double Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08A6 "ࢦ" Arabic Letter Lam with Double Bar is a specialized grapheme used in the extended Arabic script, primarily for writing certain African languages such as Hausa and Fulfulde. It represents the Arabic letter Lam (ل) with a distinctive double bar added to its base, which modifies its phonetic value to denote a unique consonant sound, often a velarized or emphatic /l/ that is not found in standard Arabic. This character was introduced as part of the Unicode Standard to support the accurate representation of languages that require additional letters beyond the traditional Arabic alphabet, enabling precise typographic and digital rendering in modern text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08A6 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Lam with Double Bar |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08a6 |