U+0932 "ल" Devanagari Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ल
U+0932 "ल" Devanagari Letter La is a consonant in the Devanagari script, representing the sound /lə/ in languages such as Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, and Sanskrit. It corresponds to the voiced alveolar lateral approximant, similar to the English 'l' in "leaf". In the Devanagari syllabary, "ल" belongs to the group of consonants called antastha (semi-vowels) and is commonly used in words like "लाल" (lāl, meaning red) and "कल" (kal, meaning yesterday or tomorrow). The character is composed of a vertical stem with a horizontal top bar, a distinguishing curl at the top left, and often joins with vowel diacritics to form full syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0932 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter La |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ल |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ल |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0932 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000932 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0932 |