U+FF4C "ｌ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter L Unicode Character
U+FF4C "ｌ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter L is a typographic variant of the standard lowercase letter "l" designed to occupy the same fixed width as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters in monospaced and East Asian text environments. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, where fullwidth characters are typically used to maintain visual alignment when Latin letters are interspersed with ideographic scripts such as Kanji or Hanzi. Unlike the standard halfwidth "l", this character takes up the full cell width, which can be useful in formatting for legacy terminals, text-based interfaces, or documents that require uniform character spacing. In terms of appearance, the fullwidth "l" is simply a wider, identical shape to its halfwidth counterpart, and it has a distinct Unicode code point to differentiate it in digital encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF4C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Small Letter L |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff4c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Fullwidth |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ｌ" U+FF2C Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter L |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ｌ" U+FF2C Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter L |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ｌ" U+FF2C Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter L |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ｌ" U+FF2C Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter L |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |