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Soft El (Ꙥ ꙥ; italics: Ꙥ ꙥ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Soft El is used in the Old Church Slavonic language to represent the soft l, a sound prevalent in several Slavic languages.

This letter is also used for the Cyrillization of Arabic.[citation needed]

Origin

The Soft El is a ligature of El (Л) and Ghe (Г).[citation needed]

Computing codes

Character information
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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 &#42596; &#xA664; &#42597; &#xA665;

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