U+1084B "𐡋" Imperial Aramaic Letter Lamedh Unicode Character

U+1084B "𐡋" Imperial Aramaic Letter Lamedh is a glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, representing the twelfth letter of its alphabet, which corresponds to the sound /l/. This character was used primarily in the Achaemenid Empire from approximately the 5th to the 3rd century BCE for official inscriptions and administrative documents, serving as a standardized writing system across the vast Persian realm. The letter Lamedh is the direct ancestor through the Nabataean script of the modern Arabic letter Lam (ﻝ) and, via the Syriac alphabet, influenced the Hebrew Lamedh (ל) and the Latin letter L, making it a key link in the historical development of writing systems in Western Asia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1084B
Version Added	5.2
Name	Imperial Aramaic Letter Lamedh
Block	Imperial Aramaic
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐡋
HTML Hex Encoding	𐡋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDC4B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001084B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udc4b

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	Imperial Aramaic
Script Extensions	Imperial Aramaic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
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