U+01C9 "lj" Latin Small Letter Lj Unicode Character
U+01C9 "lj" Latin Small Letter Lj is a typographic ligature and a single grapheme used primarily in the Latin alphabet for certain Slavic and Baltic languages, most notably in the Serbian and Croatian versions of the Latin script to represent the palatal lateral approximant sound, similar to the "lli" in the English word "million." It is a component of the digraph "Lj" and functions as a distinct letter in its own right, often appearing in the context of the full three-part character casing pairing that includes its uppercase counterparts U+01C7 for "LJ" (digraph) and U+01C8 for "Lj" (uppercase with only the first letter capitalized). The character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode and is distinct from the sequence of two individual letters "l" and "j," ensuring that text processing systems can correctly handle it as a single unit for sorting, hyphenation, and line breaking in languages where it holds alphabetic significance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01C9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Lj |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter L J |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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 "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | lj |
| HTML Hex Encoding | lj |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01c9 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "LJ" U+01C7 Latin Capital Letter Lj |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Lj" U+01C8 Latin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J |
| Uppercase Code Point | "LJ" U+01C7 Latin Capital Letter Lj |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Lj" U+01C8 Latin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J |
| 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 "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
| 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 |