U+1E05B "๐ž›" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter El Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1E05B "๐ž›" Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter El is a specialized typographic glyph belonging to the Cyrillic Extended D block, designed primarily for historical and linguistic notation where a subscript form of the Cyrillic letter El is required. This character represents a small, lowered version of the letter El, used in certain scholarly contexts such as encoding medieval manuscripts or phonetic transcriptions where diacritic or subscript positioning is necessary to indicate a specific phonetic nuance or a reduced vowel sound. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital typography can accurately reproduce these subtle textual features, preserving the fidelity of original source materials for researchers and linguists working with Cyrillic script variants.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E05B
Version Added 15.0
Name Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter El
Block Cyrillic Extended-D
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Sub
Decomposition Mapping "ะป" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞁛
HTML Hex Encoding 𞁛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x81 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDC5B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E05B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\udc5b

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 "ะป" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
NFKC Simple Casefold "ะป" 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