Unicode Character "¨" (U+00A8)

The character ¨ (Diaeresis) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00A8. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ¨.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Diaeresis
Unicode Codepoint U+00A8
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Modifier Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+00A8 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¨
HTML (hex) ¨
HTML (named) ¨
URL Escape Code %C2%A8
CSS \0000A8
JavaScript, JSON \u00A8
C, C++, Java \u00A8
Python \u00A8
Rust \u{00A8}
Ruby \u00A8

How to type "¨"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A 8. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A 8. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ¨
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ¨
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ¨
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xA8
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00A8
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000A8

Characters based on "¨" (U+00A8)

References