U+FCCB "ﳋ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCCB "ﳋ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah Initial Form is a glyph used in the Arabic script that represents a connected, initial-form ligature combining the letters Lam (ل) and Khah (خ). This ligature appears at the beginning of a word, where the two letters are joined together for typographic or stylistic convenience, particularly in classical or Quranic texts. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes ligatures designed to maintain proper visual alignment and readability in complex Arabic calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCCB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCCB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCCB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufccb |
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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| 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 |