U+FEDF "ﻟ" Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEDF "ﻟ" Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Lam" (ل), specifically designed to appear in its initial (or beginning) position within a word, where it connects to the following character from the right in Arabic script. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, intended for certain legacy text rendering and typographic contexts, rather than for general modern text encoding, which typically uses the base character (U+0644) and relies on the text processing system to automatically select the correct shape based on its position in the word. Its distinctive style features an upright stroke with a curved tail that prepares to link to the next letter, making it essential for accurate visual representation in historical or specialized digital documents.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻟ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻟ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEDF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEDF
C/C++/Java Escape \ufedf

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