U+FEF9 "ﻹ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FEF9 "ﻹ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that represents the combination of the Arabic letters Lam (ل) and Alef with Hamza Below (إ) in their isolated form, used at the beginning of a word or in stand-alone contexts. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which includes precomposed forms to support specific typographic traditions and legacy text rendering. In standard Arabic text, the two components are typically written separately as "لإ", but the ligature U+FEF9 is encoded as a single character to preserve stylistic conventions in certain fonts and historical texts, where the joined shape appears as a single cursive unit with the Hamza below the Alef.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEF9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah Under 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 "إ" U+0625 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufef9 |