Small l with Caron HTML entity ľ

ľ is the HTML entity for Small l with Caron ľ (U+013E). Copy the decimal ľ and hex ľ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity
ľ
Code point
U+013E
Unicode name
LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
Block
Latin Extended-A
Category
Lowercase letter (Ll)
Since
Unicode 1.1
Defined in
HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML namedľWorks in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimalľWorks in HTML and XML.
HTML hexľWorks in HTML and XML.
CSScontent: "\13E";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript"\u013E"Also valid in JSON.
Python"\u013e"Python 3 string literal.
Python by name"\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL%C4%BEPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytesC4 BE2 bytes.
UTF-16013E1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

ľ writes U+013E (Small l with Caron), a small letter from the Unicode Latin Extended-A block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. On a page saved as UTF-8 the letter can simply be typed; the entity helps in ASCII-only templates and code samples.

The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).