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Glyph for U+00B5
Source: Noto Sans

U+00B5 Micro Sign

U+00B5 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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 Lowercase Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu.

The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Glyph for U+03BC 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.

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
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 &micro
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) MICRO SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Latin-1 Supplement
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) compatibility
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+00B5 Micro Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+00B5 Micro Sign
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+00B5 Micro Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+00B5 Micro Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R