What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L and Latin Small Letter L?

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L is U+1D62D 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 Sans-serif Italic Small L?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L (U+1D62D) is 𝘭.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter L?

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

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L and Latin Small Letter L the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L is U+1D62D (decimal 120365) and Latin Small Letter L is U+006C (decimal 108). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L and Latin Small Letter L?

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L (U+1D62D) encodes as F0 9D 98 AD in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter L (U+006C) encodes as 6C in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L 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.

𝘭

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L

U+1D62D

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Latin Small Letter L

U+006C

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small L	Latin Small Letter L
Codepoint	`U+1D62D`	`U+006C`
Decimal	`120365`	`108`
HTML Entity	`𝘭`	`l`
HTML Decimal	`𝘭`	`l`
HTML Hex	`𝘭`	`l`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 98 AD`	`6C`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE 2D`	`00 6C`
UTF-32	`0001D62D`	`0000006C`
CSS Escape	`\1D62D`	`\6C`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDE2D`	`\u006C`
Python Escape	`\U0001D62D`	`\u006C`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%98%AD`	`l`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`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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