U+1E38 "Ḹ" Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below and Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḹ
U+1E38 "Ḹ" Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below and Macron is a specialized Latin letter used primarily in transliteration systems for ancient or scholarly languages, such as Sanskrit or Vedic texts, where it represents a retroflex or dental lateral sound with additional length or emphasis indicated by the macron. The dot below the L signifies a retroflex articulation, common in Indic scripts, while the macron above marks a long vowel or prolonged consonant. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is constructed using combining marks, making it distinct from the base Latin L. Its primary use is in academic or linguistic contexts rather than modern everyday writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E38 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ḷ" U+1E36 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e38 |
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 | "ḹ" U+1E39 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḹ" U+1E39 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḹ" U+1E39 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Case Folding | "ḹ" U+1E39 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḹ" U+1E39 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḹ" U+1E39 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| 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 |