Soft El

Cyrillic letter
Soft El
Cyrillic letter; Soft El
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/lʲ/
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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

Character information
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

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