U+1D6EC "𝛬" Mathematical Italic Capital Lamda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝛬
U+1D6EC "𝛬" Mathematical Italic Capital Lamda is a glyph that represents the Greek letter lambda in a slanted, italic style, designated for use in mathematical and scientific contexts to distinguish it from the standard Greek letter, often employed as a symbol for wavelength in physics, eigenvalues in linear algebra, or the cosmological constant in general relativity, and it resides in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block of the Unicode standard, allowing it to be displayed correctly across digital platforms and fonts that support this specialized character set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D6EC |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Mathematical Italic Capital Lamda |
| Block | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Λ" U+039B Greek Capital Letter Lamda |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝛬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝛬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x9B 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD835 0xDEEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D6EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud835\udeec |
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 | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| 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 |