U+026B "ɫ" Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde Unicode Character

U+026B "ɫ" Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde is a typographic glyph used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent a velarized or pharyngealized lateral approximant, commonly known as the "dark L" sound found in English words like "milk" or "ball" where the tongue backs toward the velum. Its distinct tilde through the middle of the letter visually indicates this secondary articulation, distinguishing it from the plain "l" (U+006C) which denotes a clear or light L. This character is essential for precise phonetic transcription in linguistics and language learning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+026B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɫ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x026B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000026B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u026b

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	"Ɫ" U+2C62 Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Tilde
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɫ" U+2C62 Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Tilde
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɫ" U+2C62 Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Tilde
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɫ" U+2C62 Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Tilde
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