U+1F11B "🄛" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F11B "🄛" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter L is a typographic symbol belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, designed to enclose the uppercase letter L within parentheses for use in specialized notation systems. It is often employed in contexts such as legal document formatting, academic referencing, or alphabetical labeling schemes where a distinct, parenthesized identifier is needed. This character helps maintain visual clarity and consistent spacing in digital text by providing a single, precomposed glyph instead of requiring separate characters for the parenthesis, the letter L, and a closing parenthesis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F11B |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter L |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "L" U+004C Latin Capital Letter L ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🄛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🄛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x84 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F11B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd1b |