U+FEFC "ﻼ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻼ
U+FEFC "ﻼ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Final Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters Lam (ل) and Alef (ا) when they appear together at the end of a word. This ligature is a standard part of Arabic calligraphy and typography, designed to improve readability and maintain the flowing cursive style of the script, especially in printed and digital texts. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, which contains contextual forms for Arabic letters to support proper rendering in different positions within words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEFC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam with Alef Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic 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 "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufefc |
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 |