U+0CB2 "ಲ" Kannada Letter La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0CB2 "ಲ" Kannada Letter La is the thirty-fifth consonant in the Kannada script, representing the sound "la" as in the English word "luck." It belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts and is used primarily in the Kannada language, spoken predominantly in the Indian state of Karnataka. The character is visually distinctive, with a curved top stroke and a vertical stem, and it plays a fundamental role in forming syllables and words in Kannada writing, appearing frequently in both literary and everyday contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+0CB2
Version Added 1.1
Name Kannada Letter La
Block Kannada
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ಲ
HTML Hex Encoding ಲ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB2 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0CB2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000CB2
C/C++/Java Escape \u0cb2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Kannada
Script Extensions Kannada
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter