U+00B2 SUPERSCRIPT TWO

²

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Decimal / Nº
178
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
European Number
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+00B2, officially named SUPERSCRIPT TWO, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin 1 Sup block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT TWO.

Categorized technically as a Other Number, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an European Number character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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178 Copied!
UTF-8 C2 B2 Copied!
UTF-16 00 B2 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 00 B2 Copied!
URL-Quoted %C2%B2 Copied!
HTML hex reference ² Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'00B2' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u00B2 Copied!
C and C++ \u00b2 Copied!
C# \u00b2 Copied!
CSS \0000B2 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(178) Copied!
Go \u00b2 Copied!
JavaScript \u00B2 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{00b2} Copied!
JSON \u00B2 Copied!
Java \u00B2 Copied!
Lua \u{00B2} Copied!
Matlab char(178) Copied!
Perl \x{00B2} Copied!
PHP \u{00b2} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\00B2' Copied!
PowerShell `u{00B2} Copied!
Python \u00b2 Copied!
Ruby \u{00b2} Copied!
Rust \u{00b2} Copied!