U+0520 "Ԡ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Middle Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ԡ
U+0520 "Ԡ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Middle Hook is an extended Cyrillic letter used primarily in historical or specialized orthographies for certain minority languages of the Caucasus region, particularly in early twentieth-century alphabets for Abkhaz and related languages, where it was employed to represent a specific palatalized or lateral fricative sound. Its form derives from the standard Cyrillic letter El (Л) with an added inward hook on the middle of the right vertical stroke, distinguishing it from other modified Cyrillic characters. In modern digital contexts, this character is rarely encountered outside of linguistic documentation, historical texts, and specialized Unicode fonts that support the Cyrillic Extended-A block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0520 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ԡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ԡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0520 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000520 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0520 |
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 | "ԡ" U+0521 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ԡ" U+0521 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ԡ" U+0521 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Case Folding | "ԡ" U+0521 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ԡ" U+0521 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ԡ" U+0521 Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle 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 |