U+08C7 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE
U+08C7 was added to Unicode in version 13.0 (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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Arabic Letter and is not mirrored. In text U+08C7 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
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-Escape | ࣇ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ࣠|
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 | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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 |