U+1D5DF "𝗟" Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital L Unicode Character

U+1D5DF "𝗟" Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital L is a typographic glyph used primarily in mathematical and scientific notation to represent a bold, sans-serif version of the uppercase letter L. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which was introduced to allow authors to clearly distinguish between letters used as variables or constants and those used in plain text. This specific character is designed to be visually distinct from both the standard uppercase L and its italic or serif variants, ensuring clarity in formulas, equations, and technical documents where a bold sans-serif style is required for denoting vectors, matrices, or other mathematical objects.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D5DF
Version Added	3.1
Name	Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital L
Block	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝗟
HTML Hex Encoding	𝗟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x97 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD835 0xDDDF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D5DF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud835\udddf

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L
NFKC Simple Casefold	"l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Math	Yes
Other Math	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper