U+1DF11 "𝼑" Latin Small Letter L with Fishhook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝼑
U+1DF11 "𝼑" Latin Small Letter L with Fishhook is a specialized phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced alveolar lateral fricative, a sound found in languages such as Zulu and Xhosa. This character is formed by adding a fishhook-shaped diacritic to the standard lowercase L, indicating a fricative articulation where air flows around the sides of the tongue. It was encoded in Unicode as part of the Latin Extended-G block to support accurate linguistic transcription and digital representation of less common speech sounds. The symbol is distinct from the similar but retroflex version of the letter L with a hook, serving a specific phonetic role in scholarly and educational contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DF11 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Fishhook |
| Block | Latin Extended-G |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝼑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝼑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0xBC 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD837 0xDF11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001DF11 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud837\udf11 |