U+0234 "ȴ" Latin Small Letter L with Curl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ȴ
U+0234 "ȴ" Latin Small Letter L with Curl is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent a voiced alveolar lateral fricative, a sound produced by directing airflow along the sides of the tongue with the tip against the alveolar ridge. It is a composite glyph consisting of a standard lowercase 'l' combined with a curl attached to the top right, which distinguishes it from similar characters like the retroflex or palatal 'l' forms. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is rarely employed in standard writing, instead serving a niche role in linguistic research and precise phonetic documentation of certain languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0234 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Curl |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0234 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000234 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0234 |