U+11333 "𑌳" Grantha Letter Lla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌳
U+11333 "𑌳" Grantha Letter Lla is a script symbol used to represent the retroflex lateral approximant sound in the Grantha alphabet, a historical abugida primarily employed for writing Sanskrit and classical Manipravalam in South India, particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This character corresponds to the Brahmic family's retroflex consonant Ṇa, often transliterated as "Ḷa" or "Zḥa," and is distinct in that it emerges from a composite ligature of the Grantha letters Ṇa (U+11332) and La (U+11321). It plays a crucial role in accurately transcribing Sanskrit texts that contain the retroflex ḷ sound, which is absent in the modern Tamil script but preserved in Grantha for scholarly and liturgical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11333 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Lla |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011333 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf33 |