Accents on the letter L

The variants of the letter L collected here carry a diacritical mark added to the base l: an accent, a diaeresis, a caron, a cedilla or a stroke. Each is a distinct Unicode character with its own code point — so l and its variants do not always sort together, and a search for plain l will not find them. The pages below give each variant's code, its HTML entities and how to type it on each system.

This page gathers 5 characters, from ĺ (U+013A) to ł (U+0142). They belong to the Latin Extended-A Unicode block (U+0100–U+017F), which gathers the accented letters of Central and Northern European languages missing from Latin-1, such as Polish, Czech and Hungarian.

Click a character to open its reference page: you will find its code point, its HTML entities, its CSS, JavaScript and Python escape sequences, and how to type it on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Character list

ĺ L with acute accent ļ L with cedilla ľ L with caron ŀ L with dot above ł L with stroke

Reference table

The 5 characters on this page, with their code point, HTML entity and the shortcut to use on each system.

Character	Name	Code point	Named HTML entity	Windows	macOS	Linux
ĺ	L with acute accent	`U+013A`	`ĺ`	`013A + Alt + X`	`—`	`Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 013A`
ļ	L with cedilla	`U+013C`	`ļ`	`013C + Alt + X`	`—`	`Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 013C`
ľ	L with caron	`U+013E`	`ľ`	`013E + Alt + X`	`—`	`Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 013E`
ŀ	L with dot above	`U+0140`	`ŀ`	`0140 + Alt + X`	`—`	`Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 0140`
ł	L with stroke	`U+0142`	`ł`	`0142 + Alt + X`	`—`	`Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 0142`

Keyboards that carry these characters

Rather than memorising a code, type these characters directly on one of these layouts:

Slovak