U+1E3B "ḻ" Latin Small Letter L with Line Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1E3B "ḻ" Latin Small Letter L with Line Below is a specialized alphabetic glyph used primarily in the transliteration of certain languages, such as in the romanization of Tamil or other Dravidian languages, where it represents a retroflex lateral approximant sound distinct from the standard English "l". It is formed by adding a combining diacritical mark, a line below the base letter "l", to indicate a specific phonetic quality that is important for accurate text representation and linguistic study. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is supported in Unicode for scholarly, typographic, and digital text processing purposes.
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Latin Capital Letter L with Line Below
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General Properties
Code Point
U+1E3B
Name
Latin Small Letter L with Line Below
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ḻ
HTML Hex Encoding
ḻ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xB8 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1E3B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001E3B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1e3b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin