U+A746 "Ꝇ" Latin Capital Letter Broken L Unicode Character

U+A746 "Ꝇ" Latin Capital Letter Broken L is a specialized typographic character used primarily in historical and medieval Latin manuscripts. It represents a variant form of the capital letter L that features a horizontal stroke breaking through its vertical stem, often employed in abbreviations or scribal shorthand practices during the Middle Ages. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, designed to support scholarly transcription of ancient texts and paleographic studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A746
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Broken L
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝇ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA746
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A746
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua746

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	"ꝇ" U+A747 Latin Small Letter Broken L
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝇ" U+A747 Latin Small Letter Broken L
Simple Case Folding	"ꝇ" U+A747 Latin Small Letter Broken L
Case Folding	"ꝇ" U+A747 Latin Small Letter Broken L
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝇ" U+A747 Latin Small Letter Broken L
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝇ" U+A747 Latin Small Letter Broken L
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