How do I type the ⅼ small roman numeral fifty symbol?

On Windows, type 217C and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 217c. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ⅼ?

Small Roman Numeral Fifty is U+217C. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

Will ⅼ survive being pasted anywhere?

Not always. Small Roman Numeral Fifty is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with l. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.

U+217C · Letter number

Small Roman Numeral Fifty Symbol ⅼ

ⅼ is small roman numeral fifty, and Unicode gives it the numeric value 50. It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Letter number.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+217C`
HTML hex	`ⅼ`
HTML decimal	`ⅼ`
CSS	`\217C`
JavaScript	`\u{217C}`
Python	`\U0000217C`
Java / C#	`\u217C`
Rust	`\u{217c}`
Swift	`\u{217C}`
PHP	`\u{217C}`
URL encoded	`%E2%85%BC`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 85 BC`
UTF-16 bytes	`217C`
Base64	`4oW8`
Decimal	`8572`
Decomposes to	l (compat form)
Numeric value	50
Category	Letter number (Nl)
Introduced	Unicode 1.1

Will ⅼ survive being pasted?

Normalisation. No. Anything that applies NFKC — search indexes, usernames, domain names, programming identifiers — rewrites ⅼ as l. Safe for display, not for storage.
Legacy encodings. ⅼ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.

Nearby in Number Forms

Roman numerals as single characters, and the vulgar fractions beyond the three Latin-1 supplies. A Roman numeral here is one character, not a run of letters, so Ⅷ and VIII sort and search differently.

All 58 characters in Number Forms →

How to type ⅼ

Windows	Type `217C` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “small roman numeral fifty”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `217c`, press `Enter`
HTML	`ⅼ`

About Unicode’s Letter number category

This is a letter number: a character that looks like a letter but carries a numeric value, the way Roman numerals do.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the ⅼ small roman numeral fifty symbol?: On Windows, type 217C and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 217c. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ⅼ?: Small Roman Numeral Fifty is U+217C. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
Will ⅼ survive being pasted anywhere?: Not always. Small Roman Numeral Fifty is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with l. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.