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Technical information

Symbolª
NameFeminine ordinal indicator
Unicode numberU+00AA
CategorySubscript and superscriptSuperscript lettersLatin-1 Supplement2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ª, or U+00AA, is known as the "Feminine Ordinal Indicator". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Letter, Modifier" category. Visually, it resembles a superscript lowercase 'a'. The Feminine Ordinal Indicator is used in various Romance languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, among others. It is typically placed after a number to denote an ordinal number in the feminine form, corresponding to the English "1st", "2nd", "3rd", etc. Its exact usage and the rules governing it can vary by language, but it generally indicates the ordinal form of a number in relation to gender.

Encoding

HTML Entityª
HTML Entity (hex)ª
HTML Entity (named)ª
URL Escape Code%C2%AA
UTF-8 (hex)0xC2 0xAA
UTF-8 (binary)1100001010101010
UTF-160x00AA
UTF-320x000000AA

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00AA"
CSS Code\00AA
JavaScript"\u00AA"
Perl\x{00AA}
Python 2u"\u00AA"
Python 3\u00AA
Ruby\u{00AA}

Preview

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

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#170;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00AA";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References