U+1DA9 "ᶩ" Modifier Letter Small L with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶩ
U+1DA9 "ᶩ" Modifier Letter Small L with Retroflex Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a retroflex lateral approximant, where the tongue curls back to touch the hard palate. It is derived from a small Latin letter L combined with a retroflex hook, and its modifier status indicates it can modify the pronunciation of a preceding character or serve as a diacritic in phonetic transcription. This character is part of the Latin Extended F block and is typically employed in linguistic studies or language documentation to precisely denote a specific sound in certain languages or dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DA9 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small L with Retroflex Hook |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions Supplement |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ɭ" U+026D Latin Small Letter L with Retroflex Hook |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᶩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1da9 |