U+1E3A "Ḻ" Latin Capital Letter L with Line Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḻ
U+1E3A "Ḻ" Latin Capital Letter L with Line Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in certain linguistic and phonetic transcription systems to represent a distinct sound or to indicate a specific modification of the standard Latin letter L. The line below the letter serves as a diacritical mark, which in many Romanized orthographies for African or Indigenous languages, as well as in older scholarly notations, denotes a velarized, dental, or other non-standard articulation of the L sound. While not common in everyday text, this character ensures that written language can accurately capture the phonemic distinctions necessary for proper pronunciation and meaning in those specific linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E3A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e3a |
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 | "ḻ" U+1E3B Latin Small Letter L with Line Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḻ" U+1E3B Latin Small Letter L with Line Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḻ" U+1E3B Latin Small Letter L with Line Below |
| Case Folding | "ḻ" U+1E3B Latin Small Letter L with Line Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḻ" U+1E3B Latin Small Letter L with Line Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḻ" U+1E3B Latin Small Letter L with Line 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 |