U+1030B "𐌋" Old Italic Letter El Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌋
U+1030B "𐌋" Old Italic Letter El is a character used in the Old Italic script, which was employed by various ancient Italian peoples, including the Etruscans, Oscans, and Umbrians, before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. This specific letter represents the sound "l" and is derived from the Greek letter lambda, reflecting the adaptation of the Greek alphabet in Italy during the first millennium BCE. The character is part of the Old Italic Unicode block, which preserves a script that is foundational to the historical development of Western writing systems, though it is no longer in common use today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1030B |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter El |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001030B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf0b |