U+FB4F "ﭏ" Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed Unicode Character

U+FB4F "ﭏ" Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed is a typographic ligature that combines the Hebrew letters Alef (א) and Lamed (ל) into a single glyph, primarily used in formal or decorative Hebrew text, especially within religious manuscripts or calligraphy. It represents a stylistic merging of these two letters, which often appear together in common words such as “Elohim” or “Alef-Lamed” sequences in liturgical contexts. This character belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, which includes various precomposed ligatures and positional forms for Hebrew and Arabic scripts, allowing for more authentic typesetting in environments where such ligatures are culturally or aesthetically preferred.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FB4F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed
Block	Alphabetic Presentation Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"א" U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef "ל" U+05DC Hebrew Letter Lamed

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﭏ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﭏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAD 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFB4F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FB4F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufb4f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Hebrew Letter
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"א" U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef "ל" U+05DC Hebrew Letter Lamed
NFKC Simple Casefold	"א" U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef "ל" U+05DC Hebrew Letter Lamed
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