Soft El

Cyrillic letter
Soft El
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values/lʲ/

Soft El (Ꙥ ꙥ; italics: Ꙥ ꙥ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Soft El has seen rare use in certain Old Church Slavonic editions as a fused form of Л҄, denoting a palatalized Л.[1]

This letter is also used for the Cyrillization of Arabic.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
SOFT EL
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
SOFT EL
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 42596 U+A664 42597 U+A665
UTF-8 234 153 164 EA 99 A4 234 153 165 EA 99 A5
Numeric character reference Ꙥ Ꙥ ꙥ ꙥ

See also

References

  1. ^ "Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS" (PDF). 2007-03-21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-19.