U+FEFB "ﻻ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FEFB "ﻻ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Isolated Form is a typographic ligature representing the combination of the Arabic letters Lam (ل) and Alef (ا) in their isolated form, written as a single connected glyph. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is primarily used in calligraphic or decorative writing to maintain visual harmony, particularly in formal text. This character is not considered semantically distinct from the two separate letters and is included in Unicode for compatibility with legacy fonts and systems that require a precomposed form. It is important to note that modern Unicode encoding recommends using the regular sequence of Lam and Alef (U+0644 followed by U+0627) rather than this ligature, as it can complicate text processing and searchability.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEFB
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic 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 "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﻻ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﻻ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBB 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEFB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEFB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufefb

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 "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
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