U+FC44 "ﱄ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC44 "ﱄ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Yeh Isolated Form is a presentation form in the Arabic script used for displaying the specific ligature combining the letter Lam (ل) and Yeh (ي) when they appear together in an isolated, or stand alone, position. This character belongs to the Unicode block Arabic Presentation Forms A, which contains precomposed ligatures designed to support complex typographic rendering in older or specialized text systems. It is primarily intended for use in legacy environments or for precise visual representation of Arabic calligraphy, where the connected form of the two letters is rendered as a single glyph. In modern digital text, this character is generally not required due to Unicode normalization, as standard Arabic text processing can generate the ligature automatically from the individual letters, but it remains important for historical documents and specific fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC44 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc44 |
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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
| 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 |