Latin Small Letter L With Stroke
Part of Accented Latin Letters
Latin Small Letter L With Stroke has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ł
- Unicode
- U+0142
About this symbol
Ł is a letter of its own in Polish, where it sounds like the w in water, as in the city name Łódź. Older Polish pronounced it as a dark l, which is why it is written as an l with a stroke.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin Extended-A
- Unicode group
- European Latin
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Polish, Sorbian, Iñupiaq, ...
- Also used for Latin-based orthographies for Belarusian and Ukrainian
- Related
- ƚ Latin Small Letter L With Bar U+019Aɫ Latin Small Letter L With Middle Tilde U+026B
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