U+004C "L" Latin Capital Letter L Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+004C "L" Latin Capital Letter L is the uppercase version of the 12th letter of the modern English alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Lamed, and is represented in the ASCII standard as the 76th code point. In both digital and typographic contexts, it appears as a simple, two-stroke glyph consisting of a vertical line and a horizontal base, and it is widely used in many languages that employ the Latin script, including English, where it represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound. Beyond its phonetic role, the capital L serves common functions in Roman numeral notation for the value 50, in scientific contexts as a symbol for liter, and in various abbreviations like "L" for large size in clothing or as a directional indicator.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
L
HTML Hex Encoding
L
UTF-8 Encoding
0x4C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x004C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000004C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u004c