U+1E3D "ḽ" Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ḽ
U+1E3D "ḽ" Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex Below is a specialized letter used primarily in the transcription of certain African languages, such as Venda, where it represents a voiced dental or alveolar lateral fricative sound. This character is formed by combining a standard lowercase L with a combining circumflex diacritic placed beneath it, indicating a specific phonetic modification. It is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode and is typically used in academic or linguistic contexts to accurately represent the phonology of languages that distinguish this sound from a plain L. The uppercase counterpart is U+1E3C "Ḽ" (Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex Below).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E3D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Circumflex 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+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E3D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e3d |
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 | "Ḽ" U+1E3C Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḽ" U+1E3C Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḽ" U+1E3C Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḽ" U+1E3C Latin Capital Letter L with Circumflex 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 |