U+2C62 "Ɫ" Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Tilde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɫ
U+2C62 "Ɫ" Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Tilde is a modified uppercase L that features a tilde crossing through its center, and it is primarily used in certain phonetic and orthographic contexts. This character represents a voiced alveolar lateral fricative sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet, where it is commonly denoted by the lowercase equivalent. It also appears in the writing systems of some African languages, such as in the orthography of the Dan language, to indicate a distinct linguistic sound not covered by the standard Latin alphabet. The character was added to Unicode to support accurate transcription and representation of these specialized phonetic and linguistic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C62 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Middle Tilde |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c62 |
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 | "ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde |
| Case Folding | "ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde |
| 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 |