U+2C3E "ⰾ" Glagolitic Small Letter Ljudije Unicode Character

U+2C3E "ⰾ" Glagolitic Small Letter Ljudije is a letter from the Glagolitic script, an ancient Slavic writing system created by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century to translate religious texts into Old Church Slavonic. This character represents the /l/ sound and corresponds to the Cyrillic letter л and the Latin letter L, serving as the lowercase variant of the uppercase Glagolitic letter Ljudije (Ⰳ). The Glagolitic alphabet was historically used in regions like Croatia and Bulgaria before largely being replaced by Cyrillic, but it remains culturally significant in liturgical and scholarly contexts, with this particular letter appearing in medieval manuscripts and modern Unicode text for digital preservation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C3E
Version Added	4.1
Name	Glagolitic Small Letter Ljudije
Block	Glagolitic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⰾ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⰾ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB0 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C3E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C3E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c3e

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ⰾ" U+2C0E Glagolitic Capital Letter Ljudije
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⰾ" U+2C0E Glagolitic Capital Letter Ljudije
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⰾ" U+2C0E Glagolitic Capital Letter Ljudije
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⰾ" U+2C0E Glagolitic Capital Letter Ljudije
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Glagolitic
Script Extensions	Glagolitic
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