U+FEDD "ﻝ" Arabic Letter Lam Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FEDD "ﻝ" Arabic Letter Lam Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Lam, which represents the sound /l/. This specific glyph is used when the letter appears alone at the end of a word or in an isolated context, as part of Arabic script's complex system of positional variants that include initial, medial, and final forms. It is encoded in the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, primarily for compatibility with legacy text rendering and to preserve the visual shape expected in traditional Arabic typography. In standard Unicode encoding, the basic letter Lam (U+0644) is preferred for general text, while this isolated form ensures correct display in specific stylistic or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEDD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Lam Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Lam
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﻝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﻝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBB 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEDD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEDD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufedd

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
NFKC Simple Casefold	"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