U+A665 "ꙥ" Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El Unicode Character

U+A665 "ꙥ" Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El is a rarely used glyph from the historic Cyrillic script, specifically designed to represent a palatalized or "soft" /l/ sound in certain Old Church Slavonic or early Slavic texts. This letter, encoded within the Cyrillic Extended-B block, features a distinct diacritical stroke to indicate palatalization, distinguishing it from the standard Cyrillic letter El (Л л). It is of primary interest to paleographers, linguists, and scholars reconstructing or analyzing medieval Slavic manuscripts, where it appears in specialized contexts but is not part of any modern Cyrillic alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A665
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Soft El
Block	Cyrillic Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA665
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A665
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua665

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	"Ꙥ" U+A664 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙥ" U+A664 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꙥ" U+A664 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꙥ" U+A664 Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft El
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower