U+0B33 "ଳ" Oriya Letter Lla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B33 "ଳ" Oriya Letter Lla is a distinct consonant in the Odia script used for writing the Odia language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. This character represents the retroflex lateral approximant sound, a phoneme that is articulated with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth, similar to a "l" but with a retroflex quality. It is part of the Oriya block in Unicode, encoded at code point U+0B33, and is used in a variety of native Odia words, often distinguishing meaning from the similar-sounding dental "l" character in the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B33 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Lla |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B33 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b33 |