U+0932 "ल" Devanagari Letter La Unicode Character

U+0932 "ल" Devanagari Letter La is a consonant in the Devanagari script, representing the sound /lə/ in languages such as Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, and Sanskrit. It corresponds to the voiced alveolar lateral approximant, similar to the English 'l' in "leaf". In the Devanagari syllabary, "ल" belongs to the group of consonants called antastha (semi-vowels) and is commonly used in words like "लाल" (lāl, meaning red) and "कल" (kal, meaning yesterday or tomorrow). The character is composed of a vertical stem with a horizontal top bar, a distinguishing curl at the top left, and often joins with vowel diacritics to form full syllables.