U+A78E LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT

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Decimal / Nº
42894
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+A78E, officially named LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT, was introduced in Unicode version 6.0. It is part of the Latin Ext D block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Latin script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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42894 Copied!
UTF-8 EA 9E 8E Copied!
UTF-16 A7 8E Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 A7 8E Copied!
URL-Quoted %EA%9E%8E Copied!
HTML hex reference ꞎ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'A78E' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \uA78E Copied!
C and C++ \ua78e Copied!
C# \ua78e Copied!
CSS \00A78E Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(42894) Copied!
Go \ua78e Copied!
JavaScript \uA78E Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{a78e} Copied!
JSON \uA78E Copied!
Java \uA78E Copied!
Lua \u{A78E} Copied!
Matlab char(42894) Copied!
Perl \x{A78E} Copied!
PHP \u{a78e} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\A78E' Copied!
PowerShell `u{A78E} Copied!
Python \ua78e Copied!
Ruby \u{a78e} Copied!
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