U+FCC7 "ﳇ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCC7 "ﳇ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the joined initial forms of the letters Kaf (ك) and Lam (ل). This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is designed specifically for contextual shaping in certain calligraphic or historical text renderings where these two letters are combined into a single glyph at the beginning of a word. It allows for more intricate and flowing visual representation in Arabic text, though its usage is largely limited to legacy systems or specialized typography rather than modern standard digital text, where separate character encoding and dynamic shaping are preferred.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCC7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Initial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Initial
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 0xB3 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCC7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCC7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcc7

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