U+A7AD "Ɬ" Latin Capital Letter L with Belt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɬ
U+A7AD "Ɬ" Latin Capital Letter L with Belt is a specialized typographic character used primarily in linguistic transcriptions, most notably to represent a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative in some phonetic notations. It features a distinctive horizontal stroke or belt across the middle of the uppercase L, distinguishing it from the standard Latin letter. This character belongs to the Latin Extended D block and was added to Unicode to support certain African languages and scholarly works that require this specific phonetic symbol. Its lowercase counterpart is U+A7AE "Ɪ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7AD |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Belt |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7ad |
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 | "ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt |
| Case Folding | "ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɬ" U+026C Latin Small Letter L with Belt |
| 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 |