U+105A9 "𐖩" Vithkuqi Small Letter La Unicode Character

U+105A9 "𐖩" Vithkuqi Small Letter La is a specific letter from the Vithkuqi script, an alphabetic writing system historically used to write the Albanian language, particularly in the 19th century. This small letter represents the sound /l/ and is part of a modern Unicode block (Vithkuqi, U+10570–U+105BF) that was added to the standard in 2022 to preserve and digitally encode this endangered script. The character itself appears as a distinctive, stylized shape that follows the general design principles of the Vithkuqi alphabet, which was created by the Albanian scholar Naum Veqilharxhi to promote literacy among Albanian speakers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+105A9
Version Added	14.0
Name	Vithkuqi Small Letter La
Block	Vithkuqi
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐖩
HTML Hex Encoding	𐖩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x96 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDDA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000105A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udda9

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	"𐖂" U+10582 Vithkuqi Capital Letter La
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐖂" U+10582 Vithkuqi Capital Letter La
Uppercase Code Point	"𐖂" U+10582 Vithkuqi Capital Letter La
Titlecase Code Point	"𐖂" U+10582 Vithkuqi Capital Letter La
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Vithkuqi
Script Extensions	Vithkuqi
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