U+FEF5 "ﻵ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻵ
U+FEF5 "ﻵ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form is a presentation form used in Arabic script to display the combination of the letters Lam and Alef, with a madda diacritic placed above the Alef to indicate a long glottal stop or a prolonged vowel sound. This ligature represents a single visual glyph that appears when these characters are combined in certain typographic contexts, particularly at the beginning or in isolation, and is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes contextual variants for accurate rendering in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEF5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Maddah on Ligature Lam Alef |
| 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 "آ" U+0622 Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufef5 |