U+004C "L" Latin Capital Letter L Unicode Character
U+004C "L" Latin Capital Letter L is the uppercase version of the 12th letter of the modern English alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Lamed, and is represented in the ASCII standard as the 76th code point. In both digital and typographic contexts, it appears as a simple, two-stroke glyph consisting of a vertical line and a horizontal base, and it is widely used in many languages that employ the Latin script, including English, where it represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound. Beyond its phonetic role, the capital L serves common functions in Roman numeral notation for the value 50, in scientific contexts as a symbol for liter, and in various abbreviations like "L" for large size in clothing or as a directional indicator.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+004C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | L |
| HTML Hex Encoding | L |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x4C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x004C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000004C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u004c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| Lowercase Code Point | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| Simple Case Folding | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| Case Folding | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |