¨

Technical information

Symbol	¨
Name	Diaeresis
Unicode number	U+00A8
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character ¨, or U+00A8, is known as the "Diaeresis". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Mark, Nonspacing" category. Visually, it consists of two horizontal dots placed over a letter. The Diaeresis is a diacritical mark used in various languages, including German and Spanish. In German, it is placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel, creating a distinct syllable. In Spanish, it is used in the word "güe" or "güi" to denote that the 'u' should be pronounced, which would not be the case in its absence. Its specific usage can vary by language, but it generally signals a modification in the pronunciation of the letter it modifies.

Encoding

HTML Entity	¨
HTML Entity (hex)	¨
HTML Entity (named)	¨
URL Escape Code	%C2%A8
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xA8
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010101000
UTF-16	0x00A8
UTF-32	0x000000A8

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00A8"
CSS Code	\00A8
JavaScript	"\u00A8"
Perl	\x{00A8}
Python 2	u"\u00A8"
Python 3	\u00A8
Ruby	\u{00A8}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¨ in sentence and in bold like this ¨ and in italic like this ¨.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#168;</span>

span {
    content: "\00A8";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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