U+FC3F "ﰿ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC3F "ﰿ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic glyph within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, specifically designed to represent the joined combination of the Arabic letters Lam (ل) and Jeem (ج) in their isolated form. This ligature is a stylistic convenience in calligraphic and typeset Arabic script, where two adjacent letters are fused into a single visual unit to improve readability and aesthetic flow, particularly in traditional manuscript styles. Unlike standard Unicode Arabic characters that encode individual letters, this ligature is a presentation form intended for specific rendering contexts, and it is not typically used for general text interchange but rather for legacy or decorative purposes. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital representations can faithfully reproduce historic or ornate texts where such ligatures are expected.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC3F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc3f |
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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
| 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 |