U+FB04 "ffl" Latin Small Ligature Ffl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ffl
U+FB04 "ffl" Latin Small Ligature Ffl is a typographic ligature that combines the three letters f, f, and l into a single printed glyph, historically used in typesetting to improve the visual flow of text and to avoid awkward collisions between the ascending strokes of these characters. This character is part of the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block and is intended for use in legacy text rendering and digital typography, particularly in fonts that support Western Latin scripts. While modern text rendering often uses software-based ligatures automatically, the standalone encoded form allows for precise representation of original printed materials or specialized writing systems where the ligature is a distinct typographic unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB04 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Ligature Ffl |
| 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 "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ffl |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ffl |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb04 |