U+A7AD "Ɬ" Latin Capital Letter L with Belt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Latin Capital Letter L with Belt
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin