U+FEE0 "ﻠ" Arabic Letter Lam Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FEE0 "ﻠ" Arabic Letter Lam Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "lam" that appears only in the middle of a word when it connects to both a preceding and a following character, typically within scripts like Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. Unlike the isolated or final forms of the letter, this glyph has connecting tails on both sides, making it a cursive, medial variant used in complex text rendering for right-to-left scripts. Its code point is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was included in Unicode primarily to support legacy font systems and text processing that require explicit glyph shapes rather than relying solely on automatic shaping algorithms. While modern rendering engines often use the standard Arabic block character (U+0644) and apply contextual shaping, U+FEE0 remains available for systems or documents that need precomposed medial forms.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﻠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﻠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBB 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFEE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FEE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufee0 |
Unicode Properties