U+1DAA "ᶪ" Modifier Letter Small L with Palatal Hook Unicode Character

U+1DAA "ᶪ" Modifier Letter Small L with Palatal Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) extensions to denote a palatalized lateral approximant, specifically a sound made by raising the tongue toward the hard palate while pronouncing an 'l'. It is a superscript or modifier form of the letter "l" combined with a palatal hook, which indicates the secondary articulation of palatalization on the preceding consonant. This character is part of the IPA Extensions block in Unicode and is typically employed in linguistic transcription to represent precise speech sounds in languages where such palatalized laterals are phonemically distinct.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1DAA
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small L with Palatal Hook
Block	Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ᶅ" U+1D85 Latin Small Letter L with Palatal Hook

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᶪ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᶪ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB6 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1DAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001DAA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1daa

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	"ᶅ" U+1D85 Latin Small Letter L with Palatal Hook
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᶅ" U+1D85 Latin Small Letter L with Palatal Hook
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