U+1C5A "ᱚ" Ol Chiki Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᱚ
U+1C5A "ᱚ" Ol Chiki Letter La is a letter used in the Ol Chiki script, which was invented in the 20th century by Pandit Raghunath Murmu to write the Santali language, a Munda language spoken primarily in eastern India. This specific character represents the sound for the consonant "L" and is an essential component of the Ol Chiki alphabet, which is designed to accurately reflect the phonetics of Santali. The script features unique, rounded shapes that distinguish it from other writing systems, and the Letter La is frequently employed in Santali orthography for everyday writing, education, and cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C5A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Ol Chiki Letter La |
| Block | Ol Chiki |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᱚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᱚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB1 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c5a |