U+FB00 "ff" Latin Small Ligature Ff Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB00 "ff" Latin Small Ligature Ff is a typographic ligature that combines two separate lowercase 'f' letters into a single glyph, historically used in printing to improve the visual appearance of text by avoiding the awkward collision of the terminal strokes of adjacent f characters. It is part of the Latin Presentation Forms block in Unicode, which includes precomposed characters for common typographic ligatures such as fi, fl, and ffi. While it is not required for modern digital text, the ligature remains supported for legacy compatibility and in applications where faithful representation of historical or typeset documents is important.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB00 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Ligature Ff |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ff |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ff |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb00 |