U+013E "ľ" Latin Small Letter L with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+013E "ľ" Latin Small Letter L with Caron is a lowercase letter used primarily in the Slovak and Czech alphabets, where it represents a palatalized or soft L sound, similar to the "ly" in the English word "million." It is composed of a standard Latin letter L with a caron diacritic, a small inverted hat placed above the character, which modifies its pronunciation to indicate palatalization. This character is distinct from the similar-looking "ł" (L with stroke) used in Polish and is an essential part of the orthography for languages like Slovak, where it appears in words such as "Ľudia" (people).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+013E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter L Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ľ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ľ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x013E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000013E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u013e |
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 | "Ľ" U+013D Latin Capital Letter L with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ľ" U+013D Latin Capital Letter L with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ľ" U+013D Latin Capital Letter L with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ľ" U+013D Latin Capital Letter L with Caron |
| 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 |