U+006C "l" Latin Small Letter L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+006C "l" Latin Small Letter L is the basic lowercase form of the twelfth letter in the Latin alphabet, used extensively in English and many other languages for its standard phonetic value as an alveolar lateral approximant sound. As a fundamental element of written text, this character appears in countless words and is one of the most frequently utilized characters in digital text encoding, represented by the single code point 6C in hexadecimal within the Unicode standard's Basic Latin block, which mirrors the ASCII encoding from earlier computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+006C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | l |
| HTML Hex Encoding | l |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x6C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x006C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000006C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u006c |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L |
| Uppercase Code Point | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L |
| Titlecase Code Point | "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |