U+1E03A "𞀺" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small El Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞀺

U+1E03A "𞀺" Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small El is a diacritical mark or modifying symbol used in certain phonetic or linguistic notations to indicate a specific alteration or nuance of a preceding Cyrillic base letter, particularly representing a reduced, superscript, or modified form of the Cyrillic small letter El (л). It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended D block, which encodes a range of historical and scholarly characters for documenting various Slavic and non Slavic languages. This modifier is not intended for standard orthographic text but for specialized contexts such as transcription, paleography, or linguistic analysis where precise phonetic detail is required. Its appearance as a small elevated version of the Cyrillic letter El helps denote a softer, shorter, or otherwise distinct articulation of the consonant sound in scholarly works.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E03A
Version Added 15.0
Name Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small El
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞀺
HTML Hex Encoding 𞀺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x80 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC3A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E03A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc3a

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 "л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
NFKC Simple Casefold "л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
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