U+013D "Ľ" Latin Capital Letter L with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ľ
U+013D "Ľ" Latin Capital Letter L with Caron is a specific glyph used in several Slavic and other languages, most notably in Slovak where it represents a palatalized or soft "l" sound, similar to the "lli" in "million." Visually, it consists of a standard uppercase L with a small v-shaped diacritic, called a caron or háček, placed above the letter. This character is distinct from its lowercase counterpart, "ľ" (U+013E), and is typically employed in proper nouns and capitalized words, such as in the name "Ľubomír." Its encoding ensures proper digital representation and typographic rendering in texts requiring this specific linguistic sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+013D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter L Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ľ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ľ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x013D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000013D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u013d |
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 | "ľ" U+013E Latin Small Letter L with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ľ" U+013E Latin Small Letter L with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ľ" U+013E Latin Small Letter L with Caron |
| Case Folding | "ľ" U+013E Latin Small Letter L with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ľ" U+013E Latin Small Letter L with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ľ" U+013E Latin Small Letter L with Caron |
| 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 |