What ဠ means
It writes the Burmese l sound.
In စကြဝဠာ (“universe”), it appears in a Pali loanword; ordinary Burmese uses လ for the same sound. Pali is an old South Asian literary language. The Myanmar script grew from Brahmi, an ancient Indian script, through a related script brought from South India to write the Mon language about the eighth century. The first known inscription in this script is from the eleventh century; the c. 1112 CE Myazedi inscription records four languages: Old Burmese, Old Mon, Pali and Pyu.
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Who writes ဠ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ဠ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Myanmar block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ဠ
- Also called
- ဠကြီး · big la · ḷa
- Search it as
- Burmese la · Pali loanword
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ဠ\1020Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.