U+00B5 Micro Sign
U+00B5 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. Its uppercase variant is Greek Capital Letter Mu and its titlecase variant is Greek Capital Letter Mu.
The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Greek Small Letter Mu. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+00B5 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “micro sign” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: measure, micro, sign.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Mu (; uppercase Μ, lowercase μ; Ancient Greek μῦ [mŷː], Greek: μι or μυ—both [mi]) is the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial nasal IPA: [m]. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 40. Mu was derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water, which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, to become 𐤌img (mem). Letters that derive from mu include the Roman M and the Cyrillic М, though the lowercase resembles a small Latin U (u).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 181 |
| UTF-8 | C2 B5 |
| UTF-16 | 00 B5 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 B5 |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%B5 |
| HTML hex reference | µ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | µ |
| HTML named entity | µ |
| HTML named entity | µ |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 85 38 |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | 79 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | 79 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| LATEX | \mathrm{\mu} |
| AGL: Latin-1 | uni00B5 |
| AGL: Latin-2 | uni00B5 |
| AGL: Latin-3 | uni00B5 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni00B5 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni00B5 |
| Adobe Glyph List | mu |
| Adobe Glyph List | mu1 |
| digraph | My |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MICRO SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| ✔ | |
| Micro Sign | |
| Micro Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Micro Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| No | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Micro Sign | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| R |