U+10490 "𐒐" Osmanya Letter Laan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒐
U+10490 "𐒐" Osmanya Letter Laan is a symbol from the Osmanya script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid specifically for writing the Somali language. This letter represents the sound /l/ in Somali and is part of a script designed to replace the previous use of Arabic and Latin characters for Somali, though it never achieved widespread adoption and remains primarily of historical and cultural significance. It is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, making it accessible for digital use in specialized fonts and text applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10490 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Laan |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010490 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc90 |