U+1033B "𐌻" Gothic Letter Lagus Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐌻

U+1033B "𐌻" Gothic Letter Lagus is a character from the Gothic alphabet, representing the letter that corresponds to the Latin 'L' and the Greek lambda. It is part of the Gothic script block in Unicode, which was added to support the historical language of the Gothic people, primarily known from the 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Wulfila. The letter lagus carries the phonetic value of [l] and its name derives from the Gothic word for "lake" or "water," reflecting the runic tradition where letters were often named after common objects or natural elements. This individual character appears in a small number of surviving Gothic manuscripts, making it an essential element for scholars and enthusiasts of Germanic philology and early medieval history.

General Properties

Code Point U+1033B
Version Added 3.1
Name Gothic Letter Lagus
Block Gothic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐌻
HTML Hex Encoding 𐌻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDF3B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001033B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udf3b

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
Script Gothic
Script Extensions Gothic
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 OLetter