U+FC86 "ﲆ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FC86 "ﲆ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined form of the letters Lam (ل) and Alef Maksura (ى) when they appear in the final position of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support traditional calligraphic and typesetting conventions where certain letter pairs are joined into a single glyph for aesthetic or readability purposes. In written Arabic, this ligature is commonly employed in words where the sequence of Lam followed by a final Alef Maksura occurs, such as in the name "على" (meaning "on" or "upon"), to maintain a smooth and connected cursive flow. While modern digital fonts often handle this combination through automatic shaping, U+FC86 provides a precomposed option for environments with limited rendering capabilities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC86 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Maksura 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc86 |