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Technical information

Symbol	º
Name	Masculine ordinal indicator
Unicode number	U+00BA
Category	Subscript and superscript Superscript letters Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character º, or U+00BA, is known as the "Masculine 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, Other" category. Visually, it appears as a small circle placed in the superscript position following a number. The Masculine Ordinal Indicator is used in various Romance languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Galician, where it is appended to numerals to denote an ordinal number - in the same way that English uses "st", "nd", "rd", and "th". For example, in Spanish, "1º" is used for "primero" or "first". The specific usage of the Masculine Ordinal Indicator can depend on the particular conventions of a language, but it generally serves as an indicator of ordinality.

Encoding

HTML Entity	º
HTML Entity (hex)	º
HTML Entity (named)	º
URL Escape Code	%C2%BA
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xBA
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010111010
UTF-16	0x00BA
UTF-32	0x000000BA

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00BA"
CSS Code	\00BA
JavaScript	"\u00BA"
Perl	\x{00BA}
Python 2	u"\u00BA"
Python 3	\u00BA
Ruby	\u{00BA}

Preview

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

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>&#186;</span>

span {
    content: "\00BA";
}

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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