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Low class consonant · letter 42 of 44

ฬ lo chula

ฬ (lo chula) is a low-class consonant named after จุฬา, “kite”. At the start of a syllable it is /l/, written l in RTGS; at the end of one it is /n/ (n).

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ฬฬ จุฬาlo chula · kite
Thai name
ฬ จุฬา · lo chula
Name word
จุฬา, kite
Class
Low class
At the start of a syllable
/l/ · RTGS l
At the end of a syllable
/n/ · RTGS n
Unicode
U+0E2C · THAI CHARACTER LO CHULA
In HTML
ฬ or ฬ
Kedmanee key
Shift + .
Pattachote key
Shift + /

How it sounds

The same l as ล, and read n at the end of a syllable. It is found mostly in words that came into Thai from Pali and Sanskrit.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ล lo ling (low).

Easy to mistake for ห ho hip: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a low-class letter gives the mid tone in a live syllable; in a dead one the tone is high when the vowel is short and falling when it is long. Mai ek gives falling and mai tho high.

Syllables with ฬ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฬาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฬะHigh
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฬากFalling
Mai ekฬ่าFalling
Mai thoฬ้าHigh
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ฬ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
กีฬาkilasport
นาฬิกาnalikaclock, watch; o’clock
ปลาวาฬpla wanwhale
จุฬาลงกรณ์ChulalongkonKing Chulalongkorn, and the university named after him

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ฬ in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.