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.[citation needed]
Computing codes
| Preview | Ꙥ | ꙥ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- ^ “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.
