U+FC81 "ﲁ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC81 "ﲁ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the letters Kaf (ك) and Lam (ل) into a single glyph for the final position within a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support traditional calligraphic and printed styles where such joined forms are aesthetically or typographically preferred. It appears at the end of a word, as the term "final form" indicates, and is commonly employed in contexts like religious or classical texts to represent the connected shape of these two characters for smoother visual flow, though it is not a standard encoding for modern digital text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC81
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Final Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Final
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 0xB2 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC81
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc81

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