U+1EFA "Ỻ" Latin Capital Letter Middle-Welsh Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EFA "Ỻ" Latin Capital Letter Middle-Welsh Ll is a specialized typographic glyph used in the orthography of Middle Welsh, a historical stage of the Welsh language spoken from the 12th to the 14th centuries. It represents the double "ll" sound, a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, which is a distinctive phoneme in Welsh. This character was introduced into the Unicode Standard to support the accurate digital representation of medieval Welsh texts and manuscripts, where scribes often employed a ligature or distinct letterform to denote this sound. Its inclusion aids scholars, linguists, and archivists in preserving and analyzing the linguistic heritage of Wales during that era.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EFA |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Middle-Welsh Ll |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ỻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ỻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EFA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1efa |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ỻ" U+1EFB Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh Ll |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ỻ" U+1EFB Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh Ll |
| Simple Case Folding | "ỻ" U+1EFB Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh Ll |
| Case Folding | "ỻ" U+1EFB Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh Ll |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ỻ" U+1EFB Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh Ll |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ỻ" U+1EFB Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh Ll |
| 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 |