U+0A32 "ਲ" Gurmukhi Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ਲ
U+0A32 "ਲ" Gurmukhi Letter La is a consonant used in the Gurmukhi script, which is primarily employed for writing the Punjabi language. It represents the voiced lateral approximant sound /l/, similar to the English letter L, and is an essential component of the Gurmukhi alphabet, where it occupies the twenty eighth position in the standard consonant sequence. This character is utilized in both religious and secular Punjabi texts, including the Guru Granth Sahib, and appears as a distinct glyph with a curved upper stroke and a vertical line, making it visually recognizable within the script's typographic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A32 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Letter La |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ਲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ਲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA8 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a32 |