u041B

U+041B, Cyrillic capital letter EL (Л), is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in a wide range of languages that employ Cyrillic alphabets. The uppercase form Л and the lowercase form л are part of the standard Cyrillic repertoire. In many languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Macedonian, this letter represents the sound [l], an alveolar lateral approximant. It is commonly transliterated as L, and in some contexts the letter name is rendered as “el.” In the Russian alphabet, Л is the 13th letter.

In Unicode, the character is named CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL and has the code point U+041B. The corresponding lowercase is U+043B (CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL). The UTF-8 encoding for uppercase Л is D0 9B, and for lowercase л it is D0 BB. In HTML, the character can be referenced as Л or numerically as Л.

Usage and representation: Л appears in many languages that use Cyrillic scripts, both in native words and loanwords. Its shape is distinct from Latin L and varies in fonts, but its phonemic value remains an L-like consonant in ordinary orthographies. The letter participates in standard alphabetic ordering in languages that use Cyrillic alphabets and retains consistent transliteration into Latin scripts as L.