U+1079B "𐞛" Modifier Letter Small L with Belt Unicode Character

U+1079B "𐞛" Modifier Letter Small L with Belt is a typographic diacritic used in the Latin Extended G block to represent a specific phonetic modification in certain linguistic transcriptions. It functions as a combining modifier letter, appearing as a small, lowered version of the letter "l" with a horizontal "belt" or bar through its middle, indicating a retroflex onset or a thickened, velarized articulation in the phonetic study of early Semitic languages and some modern African orthographies. This character is distinct from similar belt-bearing letters because it specifically modifies the small "l" to denote a secondary articulation rather than a separate segmental phoneme.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1079B
Version Added	14.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small L with Belt
Block	Latin Extended-F
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐞛
HTML Hex Encoding	𐞛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDF9B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001079B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udf9b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower