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Glyph for U+00AA
Source: Noto Sans

U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator

U+00AA was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script.

The glyph is a Super composition of the glyph Glyph for U+0061 Latin Small Letter A. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+00AA behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. In English orthography, this corresponds to the suffixes -st, -nd, -rd, -th in written ordinals (represented either on the line 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th).

Also commonly encountered are the superscript or superior (and often underlined) masculine ordinal indicator, º, and feminine ordinal indicator, ª, originally from Romance and then via the cultural influence of Italian, as in 1º primo and 1ª prima. In correct typography, the ordinal indicators ª and º should be distinguishable from other characters.

The practice of underlined (or doubly underlined) superscripted abbreviations was common in 19th-century writing (not limited to ordinal indicators in particular, and also extant in the numero sign №), and was also found in handwritten English until at least the late 19th century (e.g. first abbreviated 1st or 1st).

Representations

System Representation
170
UTF-8 C2 AA
UTF-16 00 AA
UTF-32 00 00 00 AA
URL-Quoted %C2%AA
HTML hex reference ª
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ª
HTML named entity &ordf
HTML named entity ª
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A8 A3
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) BB
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) AA
LATEX \textordfeminine
AGL: Latin-1 ordfeminine
AGL: Latin-2 ordfeminine
AGL: Latin-3 ordfeminine
AGL: Latin-4 ordfeminine
AGL: Latin-5 ordfeminine
Adobe Glyph List ordfeminine
digraph -a

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
Unicode 1 Name
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Case Folding Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Lower
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R