U+052E "Ԯ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ԯ
U+052E "Ԯ" Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Descender is a modified version of the standard Cyrillic letter El (Л), distinguished by a descender extending below the baseline, typically found in several minority languages of the Russian Federation. It represents a voiceless lateral fricative sound, often transcribed as [ɬ], which is common in languages such as Archi, Khinalug, and some other Northeast Caucasian languages. This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, added to the Unicode Standard to support the orthographic needs of these endangered languages and to preserve their written representation in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+052E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ԯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ԯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD4 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x052E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000052E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u052e |
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 | "ԯ" U+052F Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ԯ" U+052F Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "ԯ" U+052F Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender |
| Case Folding | "ԯ" U+052F Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ԯ" U+052F Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ԯ" U+052F Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender |
| 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 |