Technical information

Symbol
NameScript capital l
Unicode numberU+2112
CategoryLetterlike Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ℒ, or U+2112, is known as the "Script Capital L" or "Lagrange function symbol". It falls under the "Letterlike Symbols" block and the "Letter, Uppercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is typically used in mathematics and physics to represent the Lagrange function or Lagrangian, which is a function that plays a central role in the calculus of variations and classical mechanics. It is characterized by its cursive, script style.

Encoding

HTML Entityℒ
HTML Entity (hex)ℒ
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%84%92
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x84 0x92
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000100:10010010
UTF-160x2112
UTF-320x00002112

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2112"
CSS Code\2112
JavaScript"\u2112"
Perl\x{2112}
Python 2u"\u2112"
Python 3\u2112
Ruby\u{2112}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ℒ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8466;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2112";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References