U+00B5 Micro Sign
U+00B5 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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. It is related to its uppercase variant Greek Capital Letter Mu and its titlecase variant Greek Capital Letter Mu.
The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyph Greek Small Letter Mu. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+00B5 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “micro sign” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, 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 12th 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.
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: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | B5 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | B5 |
| 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
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MICRO SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| Compat | |
| 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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| No | |
| 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 |