U+0459 Cyrillic Small Letter Lje
U+0459 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its uppercase variant is Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje and its titlecase variant is Cyrillic Capital Letter Lje.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0459 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Lje (Љ љ; italics: Љ љ; also called lye) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Lje represents a palatal lateral /ʎ/, a sound similar (but not identical) to the palatalized alveolar lateral approximant /lʲ/, 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.
It was also once used in the Udege language, and in the Lithuanian Cyrillic alphabet.
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 hex reference | љ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ñ™ |
| HTML named entity | љ |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | 90 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8F A7 F9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 8F A7 F9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 8F A7 F9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 D3 37 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 27 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 27 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 27 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | F9 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 9A |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | 51 |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | 51 |
| 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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Letter Lje | |
| 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 |