U+FEF6 "ﻶ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Madda Above Final Form Unicode Character
U+FEF6 "ﻶ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Madda Above Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters Lam (ل) and Alef (ا) with a madda diacritic (˜) placed above, written in its final form. This character appears only at the end of a word or in an isolated position, and it is part of a set of presentation forms designed for compatibility with older display systems that lack automatic ligature support. In modern Arabic text, the separate characters Lam, Alef, and madda are typically rendered dynamically, but U+FEF6 remains available for preserving legacy encoding and for specialized contexts like certain historical documents or fonts where precomposed forms are required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEF6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Madda Above Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final 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 | Final |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEF6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEF6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufef6 |