El with middle hook (Ô Ô¡; italics:
''Ô Ô¡'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. Its form is derived from the
Cyrillic letter El (Л л) by adding a hook to the middle of the right leg.
El with middle hook was only used in the
Abkhaz and
Chuvash languages.
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set. International Organization for Standardization
In Chuvash it was used for the palatalized alveolar lateral approximant
The voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants are a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral ...
, and corresponds in other Chuvash orthographies to el with grave (Л̀ л̀).
Computing codes
See also
*Ô® Ô¯ : Cyrillic letter El with descender
*Ó… Ó† : Cyrillic letter El with tail
*Ô’ Ô“ : Cyrillic letter El with hook
*Љ љ : Cyrillic letter Lje
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
References
Languages of Russia
Turkic languages
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with hook
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