U+1E3B "ḻ" Latin Small Letter L with Line Below Unicode Character

U+1E3B "ḻ" Latin Small Letter L with Line Below is a specialized alphabetic glyph used primarily in the transliteration of certain languages, such as in the romanization of Tamil or other Dravidian languages, where it represents a retroflex lateral approximant sound distinct from the standard English "l". It is formed by adding a combining diacritical mark, a line below the base letter "l", to indicate a specific phonetic quality that is important for accurate text representation and linguistic study. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is supported in Unicode for scholarly, typographic, and digital text processing purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E3B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter L with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ḻ
HTML Hex Encoding	ḻ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB8 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E3B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E3B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e3b

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	"Ḻ" U+1E3A Latin Capital Letter L with Line Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ḻ" U+1E3A Latin Capital Letter L with Line Below
Uppercase Code Point	"Ḻ" U+1E3A Latin Capital Letter L with Line Below
Titlecase Code Point	"Ḻ" U+1E3A Latin Capital Letter L with Line 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