U+A749 "ꝉ" Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke Unicode Character

U+A749 "ꝉ" Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke is a specialized typographic variant of the lowercase letter L, distinguished by a horizontal stroke crossing its ascender at a height above the x-height. This character was historically used in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts and early printed texts as an abbreviation mark, often representing the Latin syllables "el" or "ul" or serving as a scribal shorthand to save space. In modern digital contexts, it belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily employed in historical linguistics, paleography, and philological studies when faithfully reproducing medieval orthography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A749
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter L with High Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA749
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A749
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua749

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	"Ꝉ" U+A748 Latin Capital Letter L with High Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝉ" U+A748 Latin Capital Letter L with High Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝉ" U+A748 Latin Capital Letter L with High Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝉ" U+A748 Latin Capital Letter L with High Stroke
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