U+A664 "Ꙥ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El Unicode Character

U+A664 "Ꙥ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El is a historical glyph from the Cyrillic script, used primarily in early Old Church Slavonic manuscripts to represent a palatalized or "soft" /l/ sound, distinguished from the standard hard El. This letter is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block, which was added to the Unicode standard to support medieval and ecclesiastical texts, though it is no longer used in modern Slavic languages. Its lowercase counterpart is U+A665 "ꙥ", and it visually resembles a standard Cyrillic El with a diacritical mark or modified shape to indicate palatalization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A664
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꙥ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꙥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x99 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA664
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A664
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua664

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	"ꙥ" U+A665 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El
Lowercase Code Point	"ꙥ" U+A665 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El
Simple Case Folding	"ꙥ" U+A665 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El
Case Folding	"ꙥ" U+A665 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꙥ" U+A665 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꙥ" U+A665 Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
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