U+0409 "Љ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Љ
U+0409 "Љ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje is a ligature and a distinct letter in the Serbian, Macedonian, and certain other Cyrillic alphabets, representing the palatal lateral approximant sound /ʎ/, which is similar to the "lli" in the English word "million." It was derived from a combination of the Cyrillic letters El (Л) and Soft Sign (Ь), and it plays a crucial role in distinguishing words in languages like Serbian, where it contrasts with the hard L sound. In uppercase form, it is typically used at the beginning of proper nouns and sentences, while its lowercase counterpart is "љ" (U+0459). This character is part of the Cyrillic script block in Unicode and is essential for accurate text representation in several South Slavic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0409 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Љ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Љ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0409 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000409 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0409 |
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 | "љ" U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje |
| Lowercase Code Point | "љ" U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje |
| Simple Case Folding | "љ" U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje |
| Case Folding | "љ" U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "љ" U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "љ" U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 |