U+0142 "ł" Latin Small Letter L with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ł
U+0142 "ł" Latin Small Letter L with Stroke is a distinct letter used in several languages, most notably in Polish, where it represents a dark L sound similar to the English W. It is also found in the alphabets of Kashubian, Sorbian, and the Łacinka alphabet for Belarusian, as well as in phonetic transcription and certain Indigenous languages of the Americas. The stroke, or slash, across the lowercase L differentiates it from the standard Latin L, giving it a unique typographic identity and a specific pronunciation that avoids confusion with the regular L sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0142 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter L with Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter L Slash |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ł |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ł |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0142 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000142 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0142 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ł" U+0141 Latin Capital Letter L with Stroke |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ł" U+0141 Latin Capital Letter L with Stroke |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ł" U+0141 Latin Capital Letter L with Stroke |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ł" U+0141 Latin Capital Letter L with Stroke |
| 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 |