U+FEFA "ﻺ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Below Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEFA "ﻺ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Below Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, combining the letters Lam (ل) and Alef with a Hamza below (إ) into a single connected glyph that appears at the end of a word. This form is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual shapes designed for compatibility with older text rendering systems rather than for modern encoding use. In standard modern Unicode text, this ligature is typically represented by the two separate characters "ل" (U+0644) and "إ" (U+0625), with the final form shape being automatically generated by a compliant rendering engine for the end position of a word.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEFA
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Below Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Final 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 Final
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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEFA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEFA
C/C++/Java Escape \ufefa

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"إ" U+0625 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below
NFKC Simple Casefold "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
"إ" U+0625 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter