What is the difference between Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El and Cyrillic Small Letter El?

Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El is U+1D2B in the Phonetic Extensions block. Cyrillic Small Letter El is U+043B in the Cyrillic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El?

The HTML entity for Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El (U+1D2B) is ᴫ.

What is the HTML entity for Cyrillic Small Letter El?

The HTML entity for Cyrillic Small Letter El (U+043B) is л.

Are Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El and Cyrillic Small Letter El the same Unicode character?

No. Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El is U+1D2B (decimal 7467) and Cyrillic Small Letter El is U+043B (decimal 1083). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El and Cyrillic Small Letter El?

Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El (U+1D2B) encodes as E1 B4 AB in UTF-8. Cyrillic Small Letter El (U+043B) encodes as D0 BB in UTF-8.

Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El vs Cyrillic Small Letter El

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El

U+1D2B

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Cyrillic Small Letter El

U+043B

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Property Comparison

Property	Cyrillic Letter Small Capital El	Cyrillic Small Letter El
Codepoint	`U+1D2B`	`U+043B`
Decimal	`7467`	`1083`
HTML Entity	`ᴫ`	`л`
HTML Decimal	`ᴫ`	`л`
HTML Hex	`ᴫ`	`л`
UTF-8	`E1 B4 AB`	`D0 BB`
UTF-16	`1D 2B`	`04 3B`
UTF-32	`00001D2B`	`0000043B`
CSS Escape	`\1D2B`	`\43B`
JS Escape	`\u1D2B`	`\u043B`
Python Escape	`\u1D2B`	`\u043B`
URL Encoded	`%E1%B4%AB`	`%D0%BB`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Phonetic Extensions`	`Cyrillic`
Script	`Cyrillic`	`Cyrillic`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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