What is the difference between Mathematical Bold Capital I and Latin Small Letter L?

Mathematical Bold Capital I is U+1D408 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter L is U+006C in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Capital I?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Capital I (U+1D408) is 𝐈.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter L?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter L (U+006C) is l.

Are Mathematical Bold Capital I and Latin Small Letter L the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Bold Capital I is U+1D408 (decimal 119816) and Latin Small Letter L is U+006C (decimal 108). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Bold Capital I and Latin Small Letter L?

Mathematical Bold Capital I (U+1D408) encodes as F0 9D 90 88 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter L (U+006C) encodes as 6C in UTF-8.

Mathematical Bold Capital I vs Latin Small Letter L

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.

𝐈

Mathematical Bold Capital I

U+1D408

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Latin Small Letter L

U+006C

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Bold Capital I	Latin Small Letter L
Codepoint	`U+1D408`	`U+006C`
Decimal	`119816`	`108`
HTML Entity	`𝐈`	`l`
HTML Decimal	`𝐈`	`l`
HTML Hex	`𝐈`	`l`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 90 88`	`6C`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DC 08`	`00 6C`
UTF-32	`0001D408`	`0000006C`
CSS Escape	`\1D408`	`\6C`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDC08`	`\u006C`
Python Escape	`\U0001D408`	`\u006C`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%90%88`	`l`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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