U+FEDE "ﻞ" Arabic Letter Lam Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEDE "ﻞ" Arabic Letter Lam Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "lam" (ل) used specifically when the letter appears at the end of a word, after it has been connected to a preceding character from its right side. This glyph represents the final positional variant in Arabic typography, where letters change shape depending on their placement within a word, and it is encoded in the Unicode block "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" to support legacy text rendering and fine typographic control. Its standard Unicode name reflects its role as the final form, distinguishing it from the isolated, initial, or medial shapes of the same letter.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻞ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻞ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEDE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEDE
C/C++/Java Escape \ufede

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