U+2C60 "Ⱡ" Latin Capital Letter L with Double Bar Unicode Character
U+2C60 "Ⱡ" Latin Capital Letter L with Double Bar is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in linguistic and phonetic transcription to represent a specific sound or to modify the standard Latin letter L. The double bar, which appears as two horizontal lines through the vertical stem, distinguishes this character from the regular capital L and indicates a particular phonological articulation, often related to a retroflex or lateral fricative sound in certain African languages or in the context of the International Phonetic Alphabet extensions. This letter is part of the Latin Extended-C block, introduced in Unicode version 5.0 to support less common orthographies and scholarly notation, and it is essential for accurate representation of written texts where this distinct letter occurs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C60 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Double Bar |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⱡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⱡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c60 |
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 | "ⱡ" U+2C61 Latin Small Letter L with Double Bar |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⱡ" U+2C61 Latin Small Letter L with Double Bar |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⱡ" U+2C61 Latin Small Letter L with Double Bar |
| Case Folding | "ⱡ" U+2C61 Latin Small Letter L with Double Bar |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⱡ" U+2C61 Latin Small Letter L with Double Bar |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⱡ" U+2C61 Latin Small Letter L with Double Bar |
| 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 |