U+AB5E "ꭞ" Modifier Letter Small L with Middle Tilde Unicode Character

U+AB5E "ꭞ" Modifier Letter Small L with Middle Tilde is a specialized phonetic symbol used primarily in linguistic transcription to represent a modified or co-articulated lateral sound, specifically a small or reduced letter "l" that features a tilde crossing its middle. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-E block and functions as a diacritic modifier, indicating a nasalized or laryngealized articulation of the lateral approximant in certain orthographies or phonetic notations. Its design incorporates the tilde as a central horizontal stroke, distinguishing it from a standard letter l and signaling a specific phonetic quality in transcription systems for endangered or minority languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+AB5E
Version Added	7.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small L with Middle Tilde
Block	Latin Extended-E
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꭞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꭞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xAD 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xAB5E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000AB5E
C/C++/Java Escape	\uab5e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɫ" U+026B Latin Small Letter L with Middle Tilde
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower