U+08C7 Arabic Letter Lam with Small Arabic Letter Tah Above
U+08C7 was added in Unicode version 13.0 in 2020. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+08C7 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Lām with tah above (, ࣇ, also known as "Arabic letter Lām with small Tah above" or "arlām") is a character used in the Shahmukhi alphabet for the Punjabi language to represent a voiced retroflex lateral approximant and is also used in the Kalasha language.
The Gurmukhi equivalent of the letter is ਲ਼. This was added to Gurmukhi officially relatively recently, and is not universal, but does have a precedent for use in older Punjabi texts.
It was added to Unicode in 2020 (in version 13). Due to the recency of this addition, support is still limited among widely fonts. It is possible to approximate the letter using the character combination لؕ. The character is the sole member of the script group "Arabic letter for Punjabi."
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 2247 |
UTF-8 | E0 A3 87 |
UTF-16 | 08 C7 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 08 C7 |
URL-Quoted | %E0%A3%87 |
HTML hex reference | ࣇ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ࣇ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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13.0 (2020) | |
ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE | |
— | |
Arabic Extended-A | |
Other Letter | |
Arabic | |
Arabic Letter | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
Lam | |
Dual Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |