U+0139 "Ĺ" Latin Capital Letter L with Acute Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Ĺ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+0139 "Ĺ" Latin Capital Letter L with Acute is a precomposed letter used in several languages, most notably in Slovak and some other Slavic languages, where the acute accent indicates a palatalized or softened pronunciation of the L sound, similar to the "ly" sound in "million." It is part of the Latin Extended-A block and typically appears in uppercase, with its lowercase counterpart being U+013A "ĺ". This character is distinct from a plain L followed by a combining acute accent, as it is encoded as a single atomic unit for compatibility and ease of use in digital text processing.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0139
Name
Latin Capital Letter L with Acute
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Capital Letter L Acute

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ĺ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ĺ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC4 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0139
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000139
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0139