U+1E39 "ḹ" Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron Unicode Character
U+1E39 "ḹ" Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron is a specialized Latin script grapheme used primarily in the transliteration of Indic languages, particularly Sanskrit and other languages written in the Devanagari script, where it represents a long syllabic "l" sound. This character combines a base lowercase "l" with a combining dot below to indicate a retroflex or dental articulation and a macron above to denote a long vowel length, making it distinct from similar characters without the macron or dot. In scholarly texts on linguistics and Indology, it appears in romanized transcriptions to accurately convey the phonetic and metrical qualities of the original script, though it is rarely found in everyday modern writing due to its highly specialized academic niche.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E39 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ḷ" U+1E37 Latin Small Letter L with Dot Below "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e39 |
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 | "Ḹ" U+1E38 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḹ" U+1E38 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḹ" U+1E38 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḹ" U+1E38 Latin Capital Letter L with Dot Below and Macron |
| 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 |