U+0459 "љ" Cyrillic Small Letter Lje Unicode Character

U+0459 "љ" Cyrillic Small Letter Lje is a distinctive letter of the Cyrillic script, used primarily in Serbian, Macedonian, and certain other South Slavic languages. It represents a palatal lateral approximant sound, similar to the "lj" in the English word "million," and is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters Л (El) and Ь (Soft Sign), historically evolving to denote a single, unified phoneme rather than a sequence. As part of the extended Cyrillic block in Unicode, this character is essential for proper orthography in these languages, distinguishing words and meanings that would otherwise be ambiguous without its specific palatal quality.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0459
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Lje
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	љ
HTML Hex Encoding	љ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0459
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000459
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0459

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	"Љ" U+0409 Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Љ" U+0409 Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje
Uppercase Code Point	"Љ" U+0409 Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje
Titlecase Code Point	"Љ" U+0409 Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower