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| Cyrillic letter Soft El | |
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| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | /lʲ/ |
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Soft El (Ꙥ ꙥ; italics:Ꙥ ꙥ) is a letter of theCyrillic script.
Soft El has seen rare use in certainOld Church Slavonic editions as a fused form ofЛ҄, denoting apalatalizedЛ.[1]
This letter is also used for theCyrillization of Arabic.[citation needed]
| Preview | Ꙥ | ꙥ | ||
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| 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 |
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