U+04C5 "Ӆ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Tail Unicode Character
U+04C5 "Ӆ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Tail is a modified version of the standard Cyrillic letter El (Л), distinguished by a short descender or "tail" attached to its lower right stem, and it is used primarily in the alphabets of certain minority languages within the Russian Federation, such as Khanty and Tofa, to represent a specific palatalized or lateral fricative sound not found in standard Russian. This letter is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, encoded specifically to support the phonetic demands of these Indigenous languages, ensuring accurate orthographic representation in written texts. Its usage helps preserve linguistic diversity by allowing for the faithful documentation of distinct pronunciation patterns that would otherwise be difficult to denote with standard Cyrillic characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04C5 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Tail |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04c5 |
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 | "ӆ" U+04C6 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӆ" U+04C6 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӆ" U+04C6 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Tail |
| Case Folding | "ӆ" U+04C6 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӆ" U+04C6 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӆ" U+04C6 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Tail |
| 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 |