U+028E "ʎ" Latin Small Letter Turned Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+028E "ʎ" Latin Small Letter Turned Y is a typographic symbol that represents a voiced palatal lateral approximant, a sound produced by placing the tongue against the hard palate and allowing air to flow around its sides, similar to the "lli" in the Italian word "aglio" or the "lh" in Portuguese "filho". This character is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to transcribe this specific consonant sound in languages such as Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. It is also found in some orthographies for minority languages, and its shape is derived from the lowercase letter "y" rotated 180 degrees, distinguishing it from the similar looking "λ" (Greek lambda). The character was added to the Unicode standard in version 1.1, released in 1993, as part of the IPA Extensions block, providing a consistent digital representation for linguistic notation and phonetic transcription.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ʎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ʎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xCA 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x028E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000028E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u028e |
Unicode Properties