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Glyph for U+02E1
Source: Noto Sans

U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L

U+02E1 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+02B0 to U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Modifier Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script.

The glyph is a Super composition of the glyph Glyph for U+006C Latin Small Letter L. 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+02E1 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In phonetics, a lateral release is the release of a plosive consonant into a lateral consonant. Such sounds are transcribed in the IPA with a superscript ⟨l⟩, for example as [tˡ] in English spotless [ˈspɒtˡlɨs]. In English words such as middle in which, historically, the tongue made separate contacts with the alveolar ridge for the /d/ and /l/, [ˈmɪdəl], many speakers today make only one tongue contact. That is, the /d/ is laterally released directly into the /l/: [ˈmɪdˡl̩]. While this is a minor phonetic detail in English (in fact, it is commonly transcribed as having no audible release: [ˈspɒt̚lɨs], [ˈmɪd̚l̩]), it may be more important in other languages.

In most languages (as in English), laterally-released plosives are straightforwardly analyzed as biphonemic clusters whose second element is /l/. In the Hmong language, however, it is sometimes claimed that laterally-released consonants are unitary phonemes. According to Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, the choice between one or another analysis is purely based on phonological convenience—there is no actual acoustic or articulatory difference between one language's "laterally-released plosive" and another language's biphonemic cluster.

Representations

System Representation
737
UTF-8 CB A1
UTF-16 02 E1
UTF-32 00 00 02 E1
URL-Quoted %CB%A1
HTML hex reference ˡ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌ˡ
AGL: Latin-5 uni02E1

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L
Unicode 1 Name
Block Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category Modifier Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+006C Latin Small Letter L
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
Case Folding Glyph for U+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
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+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
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
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+006C Latin Small Letter L
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 Lower
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+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
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+02E1 Modifier Letter Small L
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R