U+FDAC "ﶬ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDAC "ﶬ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing a complex combination of the letters lam (ل), jeem (ج), and yeh (ي) in their final positional form, where the letters join together to form a single glyph. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support traditional typesetting and calligraphy by providing precomposed ligatures that may appear in Quranic texts or classical manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for more accurate representation of historical and stylistic Arabic writing, where such ligatures are used to streamline or embellish the appearance of letter sequences, though it is not commonly employed in modern digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDAC
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Lam with Jeem 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
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﶬ
HTML Hex Encoding ﶬ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB6 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDAC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDAC
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdac

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
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"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