U+013A "ĺ" Latin Small Letter L with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ĺ
U+013A "ĺ" Latin Small Letter L with Acute is a precomposed character used primarily in the Slovak language, where it represents a palatalized or soft l sound, similar to the l in the English word "million." It is formed by adding an acute accent above the lowercase letter L, distinguishing it from its plain counterpart and other accented forms like the caron (ľ). This character is part of the Latin Extended A block and is commonly employed in Slovak orthography to denote a specific phonetic nuance, often appearing in words such as "ĺúbiť" (to love). It is also used in other Central European languages and transliteration systems, though less frequently.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+013A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter L Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ĺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ĺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x013A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000013A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u013a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ĺ" U+0139 Latin Capital Letter L with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ĺ" U+0139 Latin Capital Letter L with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ĺ" U+0139 Latin Capital Letter L with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ĺ" U+0139 Latin Capital Letter L with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |