What ƛ means
It is one voiceless lateral affricate: a single consonant. The tongue blocks the air briefly for t, then releases it as a hiss along its sides. “Lateral” describes that route; the International Phonetic Alphabet writes the sound tɬ, while Americanist notation uses ƛ.
The Klallam language uses ƛ as a regular letter. Adding the comma-shaped mark in ƛ̓ makes it ejective: air is trapped in the throat, then released sharply.
Technical-looking, but a regular letter in Klallam spelling.
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How to type or find ƛ
- Also called
- barred lambda · lambda bar
- Search it as
- tɬ · Klallam ƛ · ƛ̓ · lateral affricate
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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macOS
HTML
ƛCSS
\019BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ƛ
HTML hex
ƛ
CSS content
content: "\019B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%C6%9B
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.