Soft El

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Cyrillic letter
Soft El
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values/lʲ/
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Soft El (Ꙥ ꙥ; italics:  ) 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.[citation needed]

Computing codes

Character information
Preview
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
SOFT EL
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
SOFT EL
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode42596U+A66442597U+A665
UTF-8234 153 164EA 99 A4234 153 165EA 99 A5
Numeric character referenceꙤꙤꙥꙥ

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.