U+FD81 "ﶁ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD81 "ﶁ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, representing a specific connected form of the letters lam (ل), hah (ح), and yeh (ي) combined into a single glyph according to traditional calligraphic rules. This character is used in certain Arabic texts to facilitate elegant and compact writing, particularly in classical or religious works where such ligatures preserve historical orthographic conventions. Its final form indicates that the ligature appears at the end of a word, and it is encoded for compatibility with legacy font systems and digital typesetting that require precomposed shapes rather than relying on automatic cursive joining.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD81
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah with Yeh Final Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Final
Decomposition Mapping "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﶁ
HTML Hex Encoding ﶁ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB6 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD81
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD81
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd81

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
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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