U+0141 "Ł" Latin Capital Letter L with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ł
U+0141 "Ł" Latin Capital Letter L with Stroke is a distinct letter used primarily in the Polish alphabet, where it represents a sound similar to the English "w" in "water." Its visual form is an uppercase L crossed by a horizontal stroke, a mark that historically indicated a softened or palatalized pronunciation in certain Slavic languages. Beyond Polish, this character also appears in the orthographies of Kashubian, Sorbian, and some Native American languages, and it functions as a phonetic symbol in various linguistic contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across different platforms and text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0141 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter L with Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter L Slash |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ł |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ł |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0141 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000141 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0141 |
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 | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ł" U+0142 Latin Small Letter L with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ł" U+0142 Latin Small Letter L with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ł" U+0142 Latin Small Letter L with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ł" U+0142 Latin Small Letter L with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ł" U+0142 Latin Small Letter L with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ł" U+0142 Latin Small Letter L with Stroke |
| 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 |