U+A748 "Ꝉ" Latin Capital Letter L with High Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝉ
U+A748 "Ꝉ" Latin Capital Letter L with High Stroke is a medieval Latin abbreviation used primarily in scribal shorthand to represent the word "vel" meaning "or" or other words beginning with "l" in a contracted form, where the high stroke across the ascender of the letter indicates an omitted syllable or abbreviation. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and was added to Unicode as part of the Medievalist additions to support philological and historical text encoding. It is distinct from a standard uppercase L with a diacritic, functioning instead as a specific typographic ligature or abbreviation mark in Old English, Old Norse, and other medieval manuscript traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A748 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with High Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA748 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A748 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua748 |
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 | "ꝉ" U+A749 Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝉ" U+A749 Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝉ" U+A749 Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꝉ" U+A749 Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝉ" U+A749 Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝉ" U+A749 Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke |
| 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 |