Unicode Character "º" (U+00BA)

The character º (Masculine Ordinal Indicator) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00BA. 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 º.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Masculine Ordinal Indicator
Unicode Codepoint U+00BA
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+00BA Conversion

HTML (decimal) º
HTML (hex) º
HTML (named) º
URL Escape Code %C2%BA
CSS \0000BA
JavaScript, JSON \u00BA
C, C++, Java \u00BA
Python \u00BA
Rust \u{00BA}
Ruby \u00BA

How to type "º"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xBA
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00BA
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000BA

References