U+FB4F "ﭏ" Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FB4F "ﭏ" Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed is a typographic ligature that combines the Hebrew letters Alef (א) and Lamed (ל) into a single glyph, primarily used in formal or decorative Hebrew text, especially within religious manuscripts or calligraphy. It represents a stylistic merging of these two letters, which often appear together in common words such as “Elohim” or “Alef-Lamed” sequences in liturgical contexts. This character belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, which includes various precomposed ligatures and positional forms for Hebrew and Arabic scripts, allowing for more authentic typesetting in environments where such ligatures are culturally or aesthetically preferred.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FB4F
Name
Hebrew Ligature Alef Lamed
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﭏ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﭏ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAD 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFB4F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FB4F
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufb4f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Hebrew