U+0EA3 "ຣ" Lao Letter Lo Ling Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ຣ
U+0EA3 "ຣ" Lao Letter Lo Ling is a consonant in the Lao alphabet, representing the sound /l/ in the Lao language. It is one of several letters used to write the Lao word for "ling," which means "monkey," and it appears in the standard sequencing of Lao script after the character for Lo Tot (U+0EA2). The letter typically features a curved, hook-like tail that distinguishes it from similar characters, and it is used in both modern and classical Lao texts, particularly in words borrowed from Pali or Sanskrit where it serves as a transliteration of the Indic letter "ra."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0EA3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Lao Letter Lo Ling |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Alias | LAO LETTER RO (correction) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ຣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ຣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBA 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0EA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000EA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ea3 |