U+2DE7 "ⷧ" Combining Cyrillic Letter El Unicode Character

U+2DE7 "ⷧ" Combining Cyrillic Letter El is a combining diacritical mark used in certain Slavic linguistic notations and historical Cyrillic orthographies to modify a base character, typically indicating a softened or palatalized pronunciation associated with the Cyrillic letter El. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is designed to be placed above or attached to a preceding Cyrillic letter without occupying its own space. This character enables precise phonetic transcription in scholarly texts, such as those documenting Old Church Slavonic or dialectal variations, where the el sound requires a distinct diacritic rather than a separate letter. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation of these specialized writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2DE7
Version Added	5.1
Name	Combining Cyrillic Letter El
Block	Cyrillic Extended-A
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class	Above
Bidirectional Class	Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⷧ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⷧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB7 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2DE7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002DE7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2de7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Other Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend