U+FC3B "ﰻ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC3B "ﰻ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Isolated Form is a typographic glyph from the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to represent the joined sequence of the Arabic letters Kaf (ك) and Lam (ل) as a single, compact ligature in its isolated position within a word. This character is used in certain calligraphic and traditional Arabic writing styles where letter combinations are fused for aesthetic or cursive fluency, though it is not part of the standard Unicode Arabic block and is primarily intended for backward compatibility with legacy text or specialized fonts. When rendered, it visually combines the distinctive hook of Kaf with the vertical stroke of Lam, creating a seamless form that appears as a standalone unit rather than two separate letters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC3B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Isolated Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰻ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰻ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC3B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC3B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc3b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
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	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter