U+1938 "ᤸ" Limbu Small Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1938 "ᤸ" Limbu Small Letter La is a part of the Limbu script, which is used to write the Limbu language, spoken by the Limbu people of Nepal and northeastern India. This character represents the consonant sound "la" and is specifically the small or lowercase form within the script's orthography. It belongs to the Limbu block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of this historical and cultural script. The Limbu script is an abugida, meaning that each character inherently carries a vowel sound, typically /a/, and the Small Letter La contributes to the accurate transcription of Limbu words, helping to preserve the language in modern text and computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1938 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Limbu Small Letter La |
| Block | Limbu |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᤸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᤸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1938 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001938 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1938 |