U+0140 "ŀ" Latin Small Letter L with Middle Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0140 "ŀ" Latin Small Letter L with Middle Dot is a lowercase letter used primarily in Catalan orthography to represent the geminated or "ela geminada" (double l) sound, specifically the alveolo-palatal lateral /lː/ that contrasts with the single l in words like "paral·lel". It is composed of a standard Latin small letter l with a centered middle dot placed between two l's when written, though the dot is a diacritic that distinguishes it from regular l. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is encoded for use in digital text, where it helps accurately represent Catalan writing in contexts like formal documents and dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0140 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L "·" U+00B7 Middle Dot |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ŀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ŀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0140 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000140 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0140 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ŀ" U+013F Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ŀ" U+013F Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ŀ" U+013F Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ŀ" U+013F Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Dot |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | 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 | Lower |