U+1E3C "Ḽ" Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
U+1E3C "Ḽ" Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex Below is a specialized grapheme used primarily in the transcription of certain African languages, such as Venda, where it represents a voiceless lateral fricative sound similar to the "ll" in Welsh. It is formed by combining a standard Latin capital letter L with a combining circumflex accent placed underneath, indicating a distinct phonetic value different from the plain L. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which was designed to support Latin-based orthographies that require diacritical marks beyond those found in common European alphabets. Its lowercase counterpart is U+1E3D, and it is most commonly encountered in scholarly linguistic texts and digital language documentation rather than in everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E3C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex 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+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e3c |
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 | "ḽ" U+1E3D Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḽ" U+1E3D Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḽ" U+1E3D Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| Case Folding | "ḽ" U+1E3D Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḽ" U+1E3D Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḽ" U+1E3D Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex 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 |