U+10DA "ლ" Georgian Letter Las Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+10DA "ლ" Georgian Letter Las is the twenty-second letter of the modern Georgian alphabet, used in the Georgian language to represent the voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound /l/, similar to the English "l". In the ancient Asomtavruli script, its equivalent is the character Ⴊ, and it has a numeric value of 30 in Georgia traditional liturgical numbering system. This letter is a common component in Georgian words, such as "ლამაზი" (lamazi) meaning "beautiful," and it plays a key role in the distinctive visual flow of the Mkhedruli script, where its curved, rounded shape is quite recognizable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10DA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Georgian Letter Las |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Georgian Small Letter Las |
| Block | Georgian |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ლ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ლ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x83 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x10DA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000010DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u10da |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ლ" U+1C9A Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Las |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ლ" U+1C9A Georgian Mtavruli Capital Letter Las |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Georgian |
| Script Extensions | Georgian |
| 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 |