U+013F "Ŀ" Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Dot Unicode Character
U+013F "Ŀ" Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Dot is a typographic variant of the letter L that incorporates a centered dot within the vertical stroke of the capital letter. It is a relatively uncommon character primarily used in specific orthographic contexts, such as in some older or specialized transcriptions of Catalan, where it can represent a geminated or palatalized l sound distinct from a standard L. This character is also found in certain phonetic notations or linguistic documentation to indicate a particular articulation, though it is not part of modern standard alphabets for widely spoken languages. In digital text, it is treated as a single character for consistent rendering and processing, preserving the visual integrity of the L with its middle dot.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+013F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L "·" U+00B7 Middle Dot |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x013F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000013F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u013f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ŀ" U+0140 Latin Small Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŀ" U+0140 Latin Small Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŀ" U+0140 Latin Small Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Case Folding | "ŀ" U+0140 Latin Small Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L "·" U+00B7 Middle Dot |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L "·" U+00B7 Middle Dot |
| 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 |