U+013C "ļ" Latin Small Letter L with Cedilla Unicode Character

U+013C "ļ" Latin Small Letter L with Cedilla is a modified lowercase letter L with a cedilla diacritic beneath it, representing a specific palatal or velarized sound in various languages. It is primarily used in Latin-based orthographies such as Latvian, where it indicates a palatalized L, as well as in some Native American languages and transcriptions of Slavic languages. This character is distinct from a regular L and is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode, ensuring its proper representation in digital text for linguistic accuracy and typographic consistency.

General Properties

Code Point	U+013C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter L with Cedilla
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter L Cedilla
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+0327 Combining Cedilla

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ļ
HTML Hex Encoding	ļ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC4 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x013C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000013C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u013c

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	"Ļ" U+013B Latin Capital Letter L with Cedilla
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ļ" U+013B Latin Capital Letter L with Cedilla
Uppercase Code Point	"Ļ" U+013B Latin Capital Letter L with Cedilla
Titlecase Code Point	"Ļ" U+013B Latin Capital Letter L with Cedilla
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