U+212B Angstrom Sign
U+212B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Letterlike Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its lowercase variant is Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above.
The glyph is a canonical version of the glyph Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+212B forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8491 |
| UTF-8 | E2 84 AB |
| UTF-16 | 21 2B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 2B |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%84%AB |
| HTML hex reference | Å |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â„« |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 F0 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A1 CA |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A2 F2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A2 F2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A2 F2 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A1 CA |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 BF 33 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 72 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 72 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 72 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 72 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 72 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 72 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 21 4A 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 5A |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 F0 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 F0 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 F0 |
| LATEX | \AA |
| Adobe Glyph List | angstrom |
| digraph | AO |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ANGSTROM SIGN | |
| ANGSTROM UNIT | |
| Letterlike Symbols | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Angstrom Sign | |
| Angstrom Sign | |
| Angstrom Sign | |
| Angstrom Sign | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Angstrom Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| No | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Angstrom Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above | |
| R |