U+179B "ល" Khmer Letter Lo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ល
U+179B "ល" Khmer Letter Lo is the thirty-sixth consonant in the Khmer alphabet, representing the voiceless alveolar lateral approximant sound /l/. As a member of the "lo" group of consonants, it is used extensively in writing the Khmer language of Cambodia, appearing in native vocabulary and in loanwords from Pali and Sanskrit. In the Khmer script, which is an abugida, this character can combine with vowel signs and diacritics to form complex syllables, and its pronunciation may shift to a glottal or implosive sound in certain contexts or regional dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+179B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Khmer Letter Lo |
| Block | Khmer |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ល |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ល |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9E 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x179B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000179B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u179b |