л is the Unicode character CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL, code point U+043B (decimal 1083) in the Cyrillic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write л, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes D0 BB.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+043B |
| Decimal | 1083 |
| UTF-8 bytes | D0 BB |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 043B |
| UTF-32 | 0000043B |
| HTML decimal | л |
| HTML hex | л |
| HTML named | л |
| CSS | \43B |
| JavaScript | \u043B |
| JSON | \u043B |
| Python | \u043B |
| Python by name | \N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL} |
| Java, C# | \u043B |
| Rust, Swift | \u{43B} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u043B |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %D0%BB |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL |
| Code point | U+043B (decimal 1083) |
| Block | Cyrillic (U+0400–U+04FF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Upper and lower case
- Л U+041B Cyrillic Capital Letter El — Uppercase
Nearby in Cyrillic
- г U+0433 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe
- д U+0434 Cyrillic Small Letter De
- е U+0435 Cyrillic Small Letter Ie
- ж U+0436 Cyrillic Small Letter Zhe
- з U+0437 Cyrillic Small Letter Ze
- и U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I
- й U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
- к U+043A Cyrillic Small Letter Ka
- м U+043C Cyrillic Small Letter Em
- н U+043D Cyrillic Small Letter En
- о U+043E Cyrillic Small Letter O
- п U+043F Cyrillic Small Letter Pe
- р U+0440 Cyrillic Small Letter Er
- с U+0441 Cyrillic Small Letter Es
- т U+0442 Cyrillic Small Letter Te
- у U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U
All 256 characters: Cyrillic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for л?
- Use the named entity л, or л (decimal) or л (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+043B?
- D0 BB (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %D0%BB.
- How do I write U+043B in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u043B. Python: \u043B.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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