U+0B61 "ୡ" Oriya Letter Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ୡ
U+0B61 "ୡ" Oriya Letter Vocalic Ll is a rarely used letter in the Oriya script, primarily found in historical or liturgical contexts to represent a vocalic or syllabic L sound. This character is part of the Oriya block and is distinct from the more common consonant L, serving a specialized phonetic role in the transcription of Sanskrit and early Odia texts. Its usage has largely declined in modern Odia writing, where it is often replaced by more standard combinations, but it remains an important glyph for linguistic and scholarly work on the language's orthographic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B61 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Vocalic Ll |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ୡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ୡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b61 |