U+1E37 "ḷ" Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ḷ
U+1E37 "ḷ" Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below is a modified letter primarily used in the transliteration of Indic scripts, such as Sanskrit, where it represents a retroflex or syllabic lateral consonant distinct from the standard L. It appears in Romanized versions of languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Pali, often indicating a pronunciation where the tongue curls back to touch the roof of the mouth. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in academic and linguistic contexts, ensuring accurate representation of sounds that lack direct equivalents in the basic Latin alphabet. Its visual form is simply a lowercase l with a small dot placed directly beneath it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E37 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E37 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e37 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ḷ" U+1E36 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḷ" U+1E36 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḷ" U+1E36 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḷ" U+1E36 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |