U+FEF7 "ﻷ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻷ
U+FEF7 "ﻷ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters lam (ل) and alef with hamza above (أ) in their isolated form. This ligature is historically employed in printed Arabic to improve visual harmony and readability, as it merges two adjacent characters into a single glyph, though its usage has declined in modern digital typography due to the flexibility of Unicode's character encoding. It serves a specific purpose in contexts where traditional calligraphic or typesetting conventions are preserved, particularly in classical texts or stylized writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEF7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah 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 "أ" U+0623 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEF7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEF7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufef7 |