U+FC87 "ﲇ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC87 "ﲇ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters Lam (ل) and Yeh (ي) as they appear in the final position of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support legacy text rendering and complex calligraphic styles where the two letters are joined into a single, fluid glyph. It is primarily utilized in contexts requiring precise visual representation of Arabic text, such as historical documents, religious manuscripts, or specialized typesetting, though modern Unicode usage typically relies on dynamic shaping rather than such precomposed ligatures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC87
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲇ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC87
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC87
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc87

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