U+041B "Л" Cyrillic Capital Letter El Unicode Character

U+041B "Л" Cyrillic Capital Letter El is a character used in the Cyrillic script, representing the consonant sound /l/ in languages such as Russian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian. Its shape resembles an angular or rounded capital "L" in the Latin alphabet, though its uppercase form is distinct in many typefaces. This character is part of the basic Cyrillic block in Unicode, positioned after the letter "К" and before "М", and it is commonly used in writing and digital text for these languages, with its lowercase counterpart being "л" (U+043B).

General Properties

Code Point	U+041B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter El
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Л
HTML Hex Encoding	Л
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD0 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x041B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000041B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u041b

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	"л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
Lowercase Code Point	"л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
Simple Case Folding	"л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
Case Folding	"л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
NFKC Simple Casefold	"л" U+043B Cyrillic Small Letter El
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
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