U+FB02 "fl" Latin Small Ligature Fl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
fl
U+FB02 "fl" Latin Small Ligature Fl is a typographic glyph that combines the letters f and l into a single connected form, historically used in typesetting to enhance readability and aesthetics by avoiding the collision of the f’s overhang with the l’s ascender. It belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, which includes other common ligatures such as fi, ffi, and ffl. While originally employed in fine printing and manuscripts, the character supports legacy encoding requirements and remains accessible for use in digital text, though modern fonts often handle ligatures automatically through OpenType features rather than relying on explicit Unicode code points.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB02 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Ligature Fl |
| 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 "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | fl |
| HTML Hex Encoding | fl |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb02 |