U+A781 "ꞁ" Latin Small Letter Turned L Unicode Character

U+A781 "ꞁ" Latin Small Letter Turned L is a typographic variant of the lowercase letter l, rotated 180 degrees, and is used primarily in historical or phonetic contexts. It appears as a lowercase turned L in certain medieval Latin manuscripts and in some African language orthographies, where it represents a distinct sound or serves as a stylistic alternative. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, which includes additional letters for languages and scholarly transcriptions, and its design helps differentiate it from the regular l in specialized writing systems or linguistic notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A781
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Turned L
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꞁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꞁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA781
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A781
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua781

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	"Ꞁ" U+A780 Latin Capital Letter Turned L
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞁ" U+A780 Latin Capital Letter Turned L
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞁ" U+A780 Latin Capital Letter Turned L
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞁ" U+A780 Latin Capital Letter Turned 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