U+0139 "Ĺ" Latin Capital Letter L with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ĺ
U+0139 "Ĺ" Latin Capital Letter L with Acute is a precomposed letter used in several languages, most notably in Slovak and some other Slavic languages, where the acute accent indicates a palatalized or softened pronunciation of the L sound, similar to the "ly" sound in "million." It is part of the Latin Extended-A block and typically appears in uppercase, with its lowercase counterpart being U+013A "ĺ". This character is distinct from a plain L followed by a combining acute accent, as it is encoded as a single atomic unit for compatibility and ease of use in digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0139 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter L Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ĺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ĺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0139 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000139 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0139 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ĺ" U+013A Latin Small Letter L with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ĺ" U+013A Latin Small Letter L with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ĺ" U+013A Latin Small Letter L with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ĺ" U+013A Latin Small Letter L with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ĺ" U+013A Latin Small Letter L with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ĺ" U+013A Latin Small Letter L with Acute |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |