U+A7DC "" Latin Capital Letter Lambda with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A7DC "" Latin Capital Letter Lambda with Stroke is a specialized typographic variant of the Greek capital letter lambda, distinguished by a horizontal stroke crossing its upright stem. It was added to the Unicode standard as part of the Latin Extended-D block, primarily to support historical and phonetic transcriptions of ancient and medieval languages, where it often represents a voiced velar lateral approximant or a similar lateral sound in linguistic notation. The character ensures that scholars and typographers can accurately encode and display this distinct letterform in digital text, preserving its specific identity separate from other lambda-like characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7DC |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7dc |
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 | "ƛ" U+019B Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƛ" U+019B Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƛ" U+019B Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ƛ" U+019B Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƛ" U+019B Latin Small Letter Lambda with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƛ" U+019B Latin Small Letter Lambda with 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 |