U+FEE0 "" Arabic Letter Lam Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FEE0 "" Arabic Letter Lam Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "lam" that appears only in the middle of a word when it connects to both a preceding and a following character, typically within scripts like Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. Unlike the isolated or final forms of the letter, this glyph has connecting tails on both sides, making it a cursive, medial variant used in complex text rendering for right-to-left scripts. Its code point is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was included in Unicode primarily to support legacy font systems and text processing that require explicit glyph shapes rather than relying solely on automatic shaping algorithms. While modern rendering engines often use the standard Arabic block character (U+0644) and apply contextual shaping, U+FEE0 remains available for systems or documents that need precomposed medial forms.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FEE0
Name
Arabic Letter Lam Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Medial Arabic Lam
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﻠ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﻠ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBB 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFEE0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FEE0
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufee0