U+A747 "ꝇ" Latin Small Letter Broken L Unicode Character

U+A747 "ꝇ" Latin Small Letter Broken L is a historical typographic variant of the lowercase letter L, distinguished by a distinctive break or gap in its vertical stroke, designed to represent a specific sound in certain medieval and early modern writing systems. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily used in transliterating or reproducing texts from Old English, Old Norse, and other Germanic languages, where it often denoted a voiceless lateral fricative sound, similar to the 'll' in Welsh. Its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars accurately preserve and digitally render ancient manuscripts and printed works that employed this unique letterform, ensuring fidelity to original sources.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A747
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Broken L
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA747
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A747
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua747

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	"Ꝇ" U+A746 Latin Capital Letter Broken L
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝇ" U+A746 Latin Capital Letter Broken L
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝇ" U+A746 Latin Capital Letter Broken L
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝇ" U+A746 Latin Capital Letter Broken L
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower