U+019B "ƛ" Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ƛ
U+019B "ƛ" Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke is a typographic variant of the Greek letter lambda, distinguished by a horizontal stroke through its upper stem in lowercase form, and is used primarily in the orthography of several indigenous languages of North America, including Nuu-chah-nulth, Klallam, and Saanich, where it represents a voiceless alveolar lateral affricate sound similar to the "tl" in the English word "catlike". This character also appears in linguistic transcriptions of certain African languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet for specific lateral fricatives, though its encoding in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for accurate text rendering and scholarly documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+019B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Barred Lambda |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ƛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ƛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x019B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000019B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u019b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "" U+A7DC Latin Capital Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "" U+A7DC Latin Capital Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Uppercase Code Point | "" U+A7DC Latin Capital Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Titlecase Code Point | "" U+A7DC Latin Capital Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| 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 |