U+04CF "ӏ" Cyrillic Small Letter Palochka Unicode Character

U+04CF "ӏ" Cyrillic Small Letter Palochka is a distinct letter used in several Cyrillic-based alphabets for languages of the Caucasus region, such as Abaza, Adyghe, Kabardian, and Chechen. It represents a voiced alveolar lateral fricative sound, which is pronounced similarly to the "ll" in the Welsh word "Llanelli" or the "hl" in Zulu. Typographically, the Palochka often appears as a simple vertical or slightly slanted stroke, sometimes resembling an uppercase "I" or a lowercase "l," and its design varies significantly across fonts. The letter is essential for accurately writing these languages and is distinct from the Latin, common Cyrillic, or other homoglyph characters to avoid confusion in digital text encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04CF
Version Added	5.0
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Palochka
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ӏ
HTML Hex Encoding	ӏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD3 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04CF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04cf

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	"Ӏ" U+04C0 Cyrillic Letter Palochka
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ӏ" U+04C0 Cyrillic Letter Palochka
Uppercase Code Point	"Ӏ" U+04C0 Cyrillic Letter Palochka
Titlecase Code Point	"Ӏ" U+04C0 Cyrillic Letter Palochka
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