U+1DDD "ᷝ" Combining Latin Small Letter L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᷝ
U+1DDD "ᷝ" Combining Latin Small Letter L is a diacritical mark used in historical and linguistic orthographies to be placed above or attached to a base letter, indicating a specific phonetic modification often related to a lateral sound or a dark l quality. It appears in the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block and is typically employed in medieval manuscripts or transcriptions of certain languages to denote a palatalized, velarized, or syllabic l sound that modifies the pronunciation of the base character. This combining mark allows for precise representation of phonetic details that are not captured by the base letter alone, serving scholars in fields like philology and historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DDD |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter L |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ddd |