U+00B5 MICRO SIGN

µ

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Decimal / Nº
181
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+00B5, officially named MICRO SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin 1 Sup block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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181 Copied!
UTF-8 C2 B5 Copied!
UTF-16 00 B5 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 00 B5 Copied!
URL-Quoted %C2%B5 Copied!
HTML hex reference µ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'00B5' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u00B5 Copied!
C and C++ \u00b5 Copied!
C# \u00b5 Copied!
CSS \0000B5 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(181) Copied!
Go \u00b5 Copied!
JavaScript \u00B5 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{00b5} Copied!
JSON \u00B5 Copied!
Java \u00B5 Copied!
Lua \u{00B5} Copied!
Matlab char(181) Copied!
Perl \x{00B5} Copied!
PHP \u{00b5} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\00B5' Copied!
PowerShell `u{00B5} Copied!
Python \u00b5 Copied!
Ruby \u{00b5} Copied!
Rust \u{00b5} Copied!