U+0933 "ळ" Devanagari Letter Lla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ळ
U+0933 "ळ" Devanagari Letter Lla is a specific consonant in the Devanagari script, representing a retroflex lateral approximant sound, which is distinct from the more common dental and retroflex L sounds in the script. It is primarily used in the Marathi language, where it is an integral part of the alphabet, as well as in Sanskrit transliteration and other regional languages like Konkani. The character appears as a curled or looped symbol visually similar to the Devanagari letter Da (ड) but with an added diacritic-like hook, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard for consistent digital representation across computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0933 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Lla |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ळ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ळ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0933 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000933 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0933 |