U+FB3C "לּ" Hebrew Letter Lamed with Dagesh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB3C "לּ" Hebrew Letter Lamed with Dagesh is a precomposed ligature representation of the Hebrew letter Lamed (ל) combined with a dagesh, a diacritical dot placed inside the letter to indicate a modification in its pronunciation, typically a hardening or gemination of the consonant. This character belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block of Unicode, which was encoded to support the visual rendering of certain Hebrew typographic conventions that may not be automatically formed by standard shaping processes. In modern Hebrew, the dagesh in the letter Lamed is often used to denote a plosive or stressed sound, contrasting with the letter’s fricative pronunciation in other contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB3C
Version Added 1.1
Name Hebrew Letter Lamed with Dagesh
Block Alphabetic Presentation Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ל" U+05DC Hebrew Letter Lamed
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding לּ
HTML Hex Encoding לּ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAC 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB3C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB3C
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb3c

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hebrew Letter
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ל" U+05DC Hebrew Letter Lamed
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
NFKC Simple Casefold "ל" U+05DC Hebrew Letter Lamed
"ּ" U+05BC Hebrew Point Dagesh or Mapiq
Script Hebrew
Script Extensions Hebrew
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Hebrew Letter
Sentence Break OLetter