U+0508 "Ԉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Lje Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ԉ
U+0508 "Ԉ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Lje is a letter used in the Cyrillic script, specifically for writing the Komi language, a Uralic language spoken primarily in the Komi Republic of northwestern Russia. This character represents a palatalized lateral approximant sound, similar to the soft "l" in the English word "million," and is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support various minority languages of the former Soviet Union. Its lowercase counterpart is U+0509 "ԉ", and its design is based on the standard Cyrillic letter Lje (Љ) with a distinctive modification to reflect the phonetic requirements of the Komi language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0508 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Lje |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ԉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ԉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0508 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000508 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0508 |
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 | "ԉ" U+0509 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Lje |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ԉ" U+0509 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Lje |
| Simple Case Folding | "ԉ" U+0509 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Lje |
| Case Folding | "ԉ" U+0509 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Lje |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ԉ" U+0509 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Lje |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ԉ" U+0509 Cyrillic Small Letter Komi 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 |