U+0512 "Ԓ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ԓ
U+0512 "Ԓ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Hook is a variant of the standard Cyrillic letter El, distinguished by a hook attached to the bottom of its right leg. This character is primarily used in the Khanty and Chukchi languages to represent a voiceless lateral fricative sound, similar to the "hl" in some English dialects or the Welsh "ll," which is not present in Russian. It is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2005 to support the orthographic needs of these minority languages spoken in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Its lowercase counterpart is U+0513 "ԓ," ensuring consistency in written texts that require precise phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0512 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ԓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ԓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0512 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000512 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0512 |
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 | "ԓ" U+0513 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ԓ" U+0513 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ԓ" U+0513 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Hook |
| Case Folding | "ԓ" U+0513 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ԓ" U+0513 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ԓ" U+0513 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Hook |
| 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 |