U+FCEB "ﳫ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Medial Form Unicode Character
U+FCEB "ﳫ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Medial Form is a presentation form character used in the Arabic script to represent the connected medial shape of the letters Kaf (ك) and Lam (ل) when they appear together as a ligature. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed for compatibility with older text processing systems and specific typographic contexts. It does not have a semantic meaning on its own; instead, it encodes a specific glyph shape for rendering purposes, allowing the two letters to be displayed as a single joined form in the middle of a word. In modern Unicode text, this ligature is generally represented by the standard Arabic characters Kaf and Lam in sequence, with the shaping handled automatically by the font and rendering engine, making U+FCEB a legacy character primarily of historical or specialized use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCEB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Kaf with Lam Medial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufceb |
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 |