U+1084B "𐡋" Imperial Aramaic Letter Lamedh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1084B "𐡋" Imperial Aramaic Letter Lamedh is a glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, representing the twelfth letter of its alphabet, which corresponds to the sound /l/. This character was used primarily in the Achaemenid Empire from approximately the 5th to the 3rd century BCE for official inscriptions and administrative documents, serving as a standardized writing system across the vast Persian realm. The letter Lamedh is the direct ancestor through the Nabataean script of the modern Arabic letter Lam (ﻝ) and, via the Syriac alphabet, influenced the Hebrew Lamedh (ל) and the Latin letter L, making it a key link in the historical development of writing systems in Western Asia.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1084B
Name
Imperial Aramaic Letter Lamedh
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐡋
HTML Hex Encoding
𐡋
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD802 0xDC4B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001084B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud802\udc4b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Imperial Aramaic