U+0521 "ԡ" Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ԡ
U+0521 "ԡ" Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook is a rarely used letter from the extended Cyrillic block, designed specifically for transcribing certain Caucasian languages, particularly in historical or orthographic contexts. Its distinctive feature is a small hook attached to the middle of the vertical stem of the Cyrillic letter "л" (el), which indicates a modified pronunciation, typically representing a palatalized or otherwise altered lateral sound not present in standard Slavic languages. Despite its inclusion in Unicode, this character is not part of any modern standard alphabet and appears almost exclusively in specialized linguistic or scholarly works, making it a niche but important tool for accurate phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0521 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ԡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ԡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0521 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000521 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0521 |
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 | "Ԡ" U+0520 Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ԡ" U+0520 Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ԡ" U+0520 Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Middle Hook |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ԡ" U+0520 Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Middle Hook |
| 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 |