U+FCC9 "ﳉ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCC9 "ﳉ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing the connected initial form of the letters Lam (ل) and Jeem (ج) when they appear together at the beginning of a word. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized glyph variants for calligraphic and historical text rendering, and it is intended solely for compatibility with older font standards rather than for modern text storage, as standard Unicode encoding uses separate characters and dynamic shaping to achieve the same ligature. Its use preserves the traditional cursive appearance of Arabic writing in digital contexts, particularly in religious or decorative texts where precise visual representation is important.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCC9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem 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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳉ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCC9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcc9

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 "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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