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Cursive L and l to copy and paste

โ„’ is the cursive capital L and ๐“ the lowercase l. Tap one to copy it.

Every cursive capital L on this site

Every cursive lowercase l on this site

Initials with L

๐“› โ™ก ๐“œ

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The Unicode characters behind cursive L

โ„’ takes one UTF-16 unit, because it is in the Letterlike Symbols block, below U+10000. The other characters in this table are in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, above U+FFFF, and take two.

The Unicode characters for cursive L and l
CharacterStyleUnicode nameCode pointUTF-16Copy
โ„’Cursive script, capitalSCRIPT CAPITAL LU+21121 unit
๐“Cursive script, lowercaseMATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL LU+1D4C12 units
๐“›Bold cursive, capitalMATHEMATICAL BOLD SCRIPT CAPITAL LU+1D4DB2 units
๐“ตBold cursive, lowercaseMATHEMATICAL BOLD SCRIPT SMALL LU+1D4F52 units
๐ฟItalic cursive, capitalMATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL LU+1D43F2 units
๐‘™Italic cursive, lowercaseMATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LU+1D4592 units
๐‘ณBold italic cursive, capitalMATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LU+1D4732 units
๐’Bold italic cursive, lowercaseMATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL LU+1D48D2 units
๐™‡Handwritten slant, capitalMATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LU+1D6472 units
๐™กHandwritten slant, lowercaseMATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL LU+1D6612 units

Where โ„’ comes from

โ„’ is U+2112 SCRIPT CAPITAL L. It has been in Unicode since version 1.1, in the Letterlike Symbols block. Unicode gives it the alias โ€œLaplace transformโ€.

The Mathematical Script alphabet was added in Unicode 3.1. Its position for capital L, U+1D4A7, is reserved and cross-referenced to โ„’ instead of holding a character of its own, so the Unicode data sends that position to โ„’.

Because โ„’ sits in a different Unicode block from ๐’ฆ and ๐’ฉ (Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols), a font can design it separately, and how closely they match depends on the font. โ„’ takes one UTF-16 unit where ๐’ฆ takes two. The Mathematical Bold Script alphabet has no gap at this letter: ๐“› is U+1D4DB, in sequence with ๐“š and ๐“œ.

Characters that resemble a cursive l but are not

Why a look-alike is not a harmless swap

โ„“ has โ€œscriptโ€ in its Unicode name, โ€œSCRIPT SMALL Lโ€, which makes it easy to mistake for a cursive l. The cursive l this site produces is ๐“, U+1D4C1.

Characters that resemble a cursive l
CharacterUnicode nameUnicode aliases and notesCode pointUTF-16Copy
โ„“SCRIPT SMALL Lalias: โ€œmathematical symbol 'ell'โ€alias: โ€œliter (traditional symbol)โ€note: โ€œdespite its character name, this symbol is derived from a special italicized version of the small letter lโ€U+21131 unit