Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El ᴫ

Usage snapshot:

• Used in content written with the Cyrillic script; suitable for UI labels and body text.
• Appears in the Unicode block Phonetic Extensions.
• Avoid mixing with look‑alike letters from other scripts; keep the script consistent in documents and UIs.

History & usage: CYRILLIC LETTER SMALL CAPITAL EL depicts a Cyrillic letter form used in scholarly work. The tokens SMALL CAPITAL and EL signal shape and identity: a variant of the base letter class (LETTER) with a distinct typographic shape, used for capitalization distinctions and stylistic emphasis in typesetting. In orthography and typography, such shape/qualifier tokens help convey hierarchy and historical style while preserving the letter’s functional identity. 2–3 practical usage contexts appear in its record: in dictionaries and grammars for illustrating letterforms in phonetic or orthographic inventories; in educational primers and scholarly editions that show paleographic variants and typographic revivals; and in archival transcription projects that document historical texts with precise letter shapes. If the block contains EXTENDED, it would be framed as a historical or specialized variant, but here the standard context applies. The cultural capsule sentence is included verbatim: Cyrill ic is used across Eastern Europe and parts of Eurasia; examples include Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, with roots in the medieval Slavic tradition. Cross-platform appearance is generally stable; provide clear alt text for accessibility and screen readers.

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Look‑alikes: л (U+43B).

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