U+FB03 "ffi" Latin Small Ligature Ffi Unicode Character
U+FB03 "ffi" Latin Small Ligature Ffi is a typographic ligature that combines the three letters f, f, and i into a single glyph, designed to improve the visual appearance and readability of text in layout systems where the ascender of the 'i' would otherwise clash with the tail of the preceding 'f'. This character is part of the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in Unicode, which preserves common ligatures from typographic traditions to prevent automated breaking or spacing issues in digital text. Its use is primarily historical or stylistic, as modern rendering engines often form such ligatures automatically through OpenType features, making the explicit encoded character less common in contemporary plain text but still valuable for precise typesetting in contexts like rare manuscripts or specific font support.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB03 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Ligature Ffi |
| 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 "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ffi |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ffi |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb03 |