L is an eccentric French genius.
Other variations are used for phonetic transcription:        : Broken L was used in some medieval Nordic manuscriptsTeuthonista phonetic transcription-specific symbols related to R:U+AB37  LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH INVERTED LAZY SU+AB38  LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOUBLE MIDDLE TILDEU+AB39  LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE RINGU+AB5D  MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH INVERTED LAZY SU+AB5E  MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDEL with diacritics:         L l              === Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations ===  : Script letter L (capital and lowercase, respectively) : pound sign : lira sign  : Forms of L were used for medieval scribal abbreviations=== Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets === : Semitic letter Lamedh, from which the following symbols originally derive  : Greek letter Lambda, from which the following letters derive  : Cyrillic letter El : Coptic letter Lamda : Old Italic letter L, which is the ancestor of modern Latin L : Runic letter laguz, which might derive from old Italic L : Gothic letter laaz== Computing codes ==1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings
 In Unicode, this symbol is U+2113  SCRIPT SMALL L with HTML numeric character reference &#8467;

