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Glyph for U+01C8
Source: Noto Sans

U+01C8 Latin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J

U+01C8 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0180 to U+024F Latin Extended-B in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Titlecase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant Glyph for U+01C7 Latin Capital Letter Lj and its lowercase variant Glyph for U+01C9 Latin Small Letter Lj.

The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+004C Latin Capital Letter L, Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+01C8 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Lj (lj in lower case) is a letter present in some Slavic languages, such as the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian and in romanised Macedonian, where it represents a palatal lateral approximant /ʎ/. For example, the word ljiljan is pronounced /ʎiʎan/. Most languages containing the letter ⟨Lj⟩ in the alphabet are phonemic, which means that every symbol represents one sound, and is always pronounced the same way. In this case, joining the letters L and J creates a new letter or a sound. The digraph is treated as a single letter, and therefore it has its own place in the alphabet, takes up only one space in crossword puzzles and is written in line in vertical text. However, it is not found on standard computer keyboards. Like its Latin counterpart, the Cyrillic alphabet has a specific symbol for the same sound: Љ.

In sentence case, only L is capitalized.

The same sound appears in Italian spelled with ⟨gl⟩, in some variants of Spanish and Catalan as ⟨ll⟩, in Portuguese as ⟨lh⟩, in some Hungarian dialects as ⟨ly⟩ and in Latvian as ⟨ļ⟩. In Czech and Slovak, it is often transcribed as ⟨ľ⟩ (it is used more frequently on the latter language).

Ljudevit Gaj first proposed this digraph in 1835.

Representations

System Representation
456
UTF-8 C7 88
UTF-16 01 C8
UTF-32 00 00 01 C8
URL-Quoted %C7%88
HTML hex reference Lj
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Lj
AGL: Latin-5 uni01C8
Adobe Glyph List Lj

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH SMALL LETTER J
Unicode 1 Name LATIN LETTER CAPITAL L SMALL J
Block Latin Extended-B
General Category Titlecase Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+004C Latin Capital Letter L Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+01C9 Latin Small Letter Lj
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+01C9 Latin Small Letter Lj
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+01C7 Latin Capital Letter Lj
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+01C7 Latin Capital Letter Lj
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+01C8 Latin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+01C8 Latin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J
Case Folding Glyph for U+01C9 Latin Small Letter Lj
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+01C8 Latin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+006C Latin Small Letter L Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+006C Latin Small Letter L Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Upper
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+01C8 Latin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+01C9 Latin Small Letter Lj
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R