U+FEDF Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form
U+FEDF was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic Presentation Forms-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is an initial version of the glyph Arabic Letter Lam. 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+FEDF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew lāmeḏ ל, Aramaic lāmaḏ 𐡋, Syriac lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic lām ل, and Phoenician lāmd 𐤋. Its sound value is [l].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic El (Л).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65247 |
| UTF-8 | EF BB 9F |
| UTF-16 | FE DF |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FE DF |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BB%9F |
| HTML hex reference | ﻟ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﻟ |
| Adobe Glyph List | laminitialarabic |
| digraph | l+; |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER LAM INITIAL FORM | |
| GLYPH FOR INITIAL ARABIC LAM | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| initial | |
| Arabic Letter Lam | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Lam | |
| No | |
| Arabic Letter Lam | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form | |
| R |