Font ligature not working

[kaybhutani]

<style>
@font-face {
  font-family: example;
  src: url(./example-font.woff);
}

div {
  font-family: example;
}
</style>




<div style="font-size: 100px;">

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&#61697

</div>

When I do this, &#61697 returns me the icon at that unicode but the ligature isn't working. Which is for the same unicode value