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ℒ
U+2112 · SCRIPT CAPITAL L

Script Capital L

  • CodepointU+2112
  • NameSCRIPT CAPITAL L
  • Decimal8466
  • BlockLetterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2112 (ℒ) is SCRIPT CAPITAL L, an uppercase letter in the Letterlike Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a font variant of U+004C L (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+004C L. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It has standardized variation sequences that request a specific glyph shape: U+2112 U+FE00 — chancery style; U+2112 U+FE01 — roundhand style. See variation selectors.

How to type ℒ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 84 923 bytes
UTF-1621121 code unit
UTF-32000021124 bytes
HTML named&Lscr;named character reference
HTML named&lagran;named character reference
HTML named&Laplacetrf;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8466;
HTML hex&#x2112;
CSS\2112in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2112
JSON\u2112
Python\u2112
Python\N{SCRIPT CAPITAL L}by name
Java / C#\u2112
C / C++\u2112universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2112}
Go\u2112
Ruby\u2112
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8466)
URL-encoded%E2%84%92percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+004C L
NFKDU+004C L
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+004CLLatin Capital Letter L U+216CⅬRoman Numeral Fifty U+1D40B𝐋Mathematical Bold Capital L U+1D43F𝐿Mathematical Italic Capital L U+1D473𝑳Mathematical Bold Italic Capital L U+1D4DB𝓛Mathematical Bold Script Capital L U+1D50F𝔏Mathematical Fraktur Capital L U+1D543𝕃Mathematical Double-Struck Capital L U+1D577𝕷Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital L U+1D5AB𝖫Mathematical Sans-Serif Capital L U+1D5DF𝗟Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital L U+1D613𝘓Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital L U+1D647𝙇Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital L U+1D67B𝙻Mathematical Monospace Capital L U+13DEᏞCherokee Letter Tle U+14AAᒪCanadian Syllabics Ma
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+210CℌBlack-Letter Capital H U+210DℍDouble-Struck Capital H U+210EℎPlanck Constant U+210FℏPlanck Constant Over Two Pi U+2110ℐScript Capital I U+2111ℑBlack-Letter Capital I U+2113ℓScript Small L U+2114℔L B Bar Symbol U+2115ℕDouble-Struck Capital N U+2116№Numero Sign U+2117℗Sound Recording Copyright U+2118℘Script Capital P