Latin Capital Letter L
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 76 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter l.
- Alt code
- Alt+76
- HTML entity
- L
- Unicode
- U+004C
About this symbol
L comes from lamedh, the Phoenician letter whose name is linked to an ox goad, the stick used to drive cattle. The Greeks turned it into lambda, Λ, and the Romans gave it a right angle.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.