U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje
U+0459 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its uppercase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje and its titlecase variant Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje.
The glyph is not a composition. 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+0459 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:
Lje (Љ љ; italics: Љ љ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Lje represents a palatal lateral /ʎ/, a sound similar (but not identical) to the palatalized alveolar lateral, which is in some languages represented by the digraph ⟨ль⟩ and pronounced /lʲ/ like the ⟨ll⟩ in "million". Compare Latvian ⟨ļ⟩, Slovak ⟨ľ⟩, Portuguese ⟨lh⟩, Spanish ⟨ll⟩ and Italian ⟨gl⟩.
Lje is a ligature of ⟨л⟩ and ⟨ь⟩. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨ль⟩. It corresponds to the digraph ⟨Lj⟩ in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.
It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian), and Itelmen.
Lje is commonly transliterated as lj but it can also be transliterated as ľ, or ļ.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1113 |
| UTF-8 | D1 99 |
| UTF-16 | 04 59 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 04 59 |
| URL-Quoted | %D1%99 |
| HTML-Escape | љ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ñ |
| HTML-Escape | љ |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | F9 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | BD |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\cyrlje |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii10106 |
| Adobe Glyph List | ljecyrillic |
| digraph | lj |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LJE | |
| — | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje | |
| Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| R |