U+023D "Ƚ" Latin Capital Letter L with Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+023D "Ƚ" Latin Capital Letter L with Bar is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in the writing systems of certain indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest, such as Bella Coola (Nuxalk), where it represents a voiceless lateral fricative sound, similar to the "hl" in Welsh, or other lateral obstruents not found in standard English. Its design features a standard capital L crossed by a horizontal bar through its vertical stem, distinguishing it visually from a plain L and from similar barred letters like Ł (L with stroke). This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block in Unicode, ensuring that linguists and speakers of these languages can accurately represent unique phonetic distinctions in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+023D |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Bar |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x023D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000023D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u023d |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƚ" U+019A Latin Small Letter L with Bar |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƚ" U+019A Latin Small Letter L with Bar |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƚ" U+019A Latin Small Letter L with Bar |
| Case Folding | "ƚ" U+019A Latin Small Letter L with Bar |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƚ" U+019A Latin Small Letter L with Bar |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƚ" U+019A Latin Small Letter L with Bar |
| 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 |