U+052F "ԯ" Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender Unicode Character

U+052F "ԯ" Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender is a variant of the Cyrillic letter El (Л л) that includes a descender, a downward stroke below the baseline. It is used in certain orthographies for minority languages of the Caucasus and Siberia, such as in the Abkhaz and Itelmen alphabets, where it typically represents a voiced alveolar lateral fricative sound, pronounced like the "hl" in Welsh "lloyd" or a similar lateral consonant distinct from the standard Л. The character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block to support these specific linguistic requirements.

General Properties

Code Point	U+052F
Version Added	7.0
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter El with Descender
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ԯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ԯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x052F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000052F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u052f

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	"Ԯ" U+052E Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Descender
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ԯ" U+052E Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Descender
Uppercase Code Point	"Ԯ" U+052E Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Descender
Titlecase Code Point	"Ԯ" U+052E Cyrillic Capital Letter El with Descender
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