U+FC40 "ﱀ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC40 "ﱀ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combined form of the letter "Lam" (ل) followed by the letter "Hah" (ح) when they appear together in an isolated position, meaning not connected to other characters on either side. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to provide precomposed renderings for text processing systems that cannot dynamically form complex cursive connections, and it is particularly useful in contexts like historical manuscripts or simple rendering environments where automatic glyph shaping is not supported.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC40
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah 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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱀ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱀ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC40
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc40

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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