U+FCCD "ﳍ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCCD "ﳍ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Heh Initial Form is a special typographic glyph within the Arabic script block that represents the mandatory ligature of the Arabic letters Lam (ل) and Heh (ه) when they appear in their initial or word-beginning form. This ligature is used in specific calligraphic styles and Quranic or formal texts to promote visual harmony and readability, as the joining of these two characters creates a distinct, connected shape. The character is part of a broader set of Arabic presentation forms, which were encoded to accommodate traditional printing and digital rendering requirements where such ligatures are expected to be displayed as a single unit rather than as separate characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCCD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam with Heh 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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳍ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳍ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCCD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCCD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufccd

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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
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