U+1086B "๐กซ" Palmyrene Letter Lamedh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1086B "๐กซ" Palmyrene Letter Lamedh is a character from the Palmyrene script, an ancient Semitic alphabet used in the city of Palmyra and surrounding regions in modern-day Syria from around the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This letter represents the consonant sound "L," corresponding to the Hebrew and Aramaic letter Lamedh, and was employed in inscriptions on monuments, tombs, and trade documents reflecting the bilingual culture of the Palmyrene Empire. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars and digital users can accurately encode and preserve this historical script for linguistic and archaeological study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1086B |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Palmyrene Letter Lamedh |
| Block | Palmyrene |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001086B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc6b |