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ℓ
U+2113 · SCRIPT SMALL L

Script Small L

  • CodepointU+2113
  • NameSCRIPT SMALL L
  • Decimal8467
  • BlockLetterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2113 (ℓ) is SCRIPT SMALL L, a lowercase 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+006C l (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+006C l. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ℓ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 84 933 bytes
UTF-1621131 code unit
UTF-32000021134 bytes
HTML named&ell;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8467;
HTML hex&#x2113;
CSS\2113in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2113
JSON\u2113
Python\u2113
Python\N{SCRIPT SMALL L}by name
Java / C#\u2113
C / C++\u2113universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2113}
Go\u2113
Ruby\u2113
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8467)
URL-encoded%E2%84%93percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+006C l
NFKDU+006C 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+00311Digit One U+0049ILatin Capital Letter I U+006ClLatin Small Letter L U+007C|Vertical Line U+0196ƖLatin Capital Letter Iota U+01C0ǀLatin Letter Dental Click U+0399ΙGreek Capital Letter Iota U+0406ІCyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I U+04C0ӀCyrillic Letter Palochka U+05C0׀Hebrew Punctuation Paseq U+05D5וHebrew Letter Vav U+05DFןHebrew Letter Final Nun U+0627اArabic Letter Alef U+0661١Arabic-Indic Digit One U+06F1۱Extended Arabic-Indic Digit One U+16C1ᛁRunic Letter Isaz Is Iss I
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Characters built on ℓ

U+3395㎕Square Mu L U+3396㎖Square Ml U+3397㎗Square Dl U+3398㎘Square Kl
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+210DℍDouble-Struck Capital H U+210EℎPlanck Constant U+210FℏPlanck Constant Over Two Pi U+2110ℐScript Capital I U+2111ℑBlack-Letter Capital I U+2112ℒScript Capital 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 U+2119ℙDouble-Struck Capital P