U+11332 "𑌲" Grantha Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌲
U+11332 "𑌲" Grantha Letter La is a character from the Grantha script used historically for writing Sanskrit and classical Tamil texts, representing the consonant "la." This ancient script, primarily employed in Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala, bridges the Brahmi-derived writing systems with modern Dravidian scripts. The letter "𑌲" resembles its modern Tamil and Malayalam counterparts, reflecting the Grantha script's role in preserving religious and scholarly literature, including Hindu and Jain manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and facilitates accurate representation of historical documents, enabling scholars and linguists to study and reproduce texts that use this script with precision.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11332 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter La |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011332 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf32 |