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U+00BA · MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR

Masculine Ordinal Indicator

  • CodepointU+00BA
  • NameMASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
  • Decimal186
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00BA (º) is MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR, a letter in the Latin-1 Supplement block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a superscript form of U+006F o (compatibility decomposition <super>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+006F o. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type º

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 BA2 bytes
UTF-1600BA1 code unit
UTF-32000000BA4 bytes
HTML named&ordm;named character reference
HTML decimal&#186;
HTML hex&#xBA;
CSS\BAin content: "…"
JavaScript\u00BA
JSON\u00BA
Python\u00BA
Python\N{MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR}by name
Java / C#\u00BA
C / C++\u00BAuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{BA}
Go\u00BA
Ruby\u00BA
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(186)
URL-encoded%C2%BApercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+006F o
NFKDU+006F o
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+1D52ᵒModifier Letter Small O U+2070⁰Superscript Zero
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00B4´Acute Accent U+00B5µMicro Sign U+00B6Pilcrow Sign U+00B7·Middle Dot U+00B8¸Cedilla U+00B9¹Superscript One U+00BB»Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark U+00BC¼Vulgar Fraction One Quarter U+00BD½Vulgar Fraction One Half U+00BE¾Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters U+00BF¿Inverted Question Mark U+00C0ÀLatin Capital Letter A with Grave