U+1D38 "ᴸ" Modifier Letter Capital L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᴸ
U+1D38 "ᴸ" Modifier Letter Capital L is a small, superscript form of a capital L used primarily in phonetic transcription systems, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a secondary articulation or modification of a preceding sound, often representing a lateral or laryngeal feature. It belongs to the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode and is commonly employed in linguistic notation to denote a light or unclear L sound in narrow transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D38 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Capital L |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d38 |
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 | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| 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 |