U+0AB3 "ળ" Gujarati Letter Lla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0AB3 "ળ" Gujarati Letter Lla is a consonant used in the Gujarati script, representing a retroflex lateral approximant sound that is unique to languages like Gujarati and occasionally in Sindhi. This character is distinct from the regular "લ" (la) because it is pronounced with the tongue curled back further in the mouth, touching the palate. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Gujarati block (U+0A80 to U+0AFF) and is encoded for use in digital text to preserve the phonetic and orthographic accuracy of written Gujarati, appearing in words like "બળ" (power) or "તળાવ" (pond).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AB3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter Lla |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ળ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ળ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ab3 |