U+FC41 "ﱁ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC41 "ﱁ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combination of the Arabic letters Lam (ل) and Khah (خ) joined together as a single glyph in their isolated form. This character was included in the Unicode standard to support legacy text rendering and specific fonts that require precomposed ligature forms for correct visual presentation, particularly in older character encoding systems or calligraphic styles. It is not typically used in modern digital text, where standard Unicode characters and OpenType font features can dynamically create such ligatures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC41
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC41
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC41
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc41

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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