U+1E36 "Ḷ" Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E36 "Ḷ" Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below is a specialised letter used primarily in the transliteration and orthography of certain languages and scripts, most notably in the romanization of Sanskrit and other South Asian languages where it represents a retroflex lateral approximant. It is formed by combining a standard uppercase Latin L with a combining dot below, which visually distinguishes it from its plain counterpart and indicates a distinct phonetic value. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which supports a wide range of diacritical marks for scholarly and linguistic purposes. In practical usage, it appears in academic texts, linguistic studies, and digital transcriptions where precise representation of non English sounds is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E36 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e36 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ḷ" U+1E37 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḷ" U+1E37 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḷ" U+1E37 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ḷ" U+1E37 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḷ" U+1E37 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḷ" U+1E37 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |