µ
Technical information
| Symbol | µ | |
| Name | Micro sign | |
| Unicode number | U+00B5 | |
| Category | Latin-1 Supplement2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character µ, or U+00B5, is known as the "Micro Sign". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category. Visually, it resembles the Greek lowercase letter mu (μ), and is commonly used in scientific and technical contexts. The Micro Sign is primarily used as a prefix denoting a factor of 10^-6 in the International System of Units (SI). For instance, 1 micrometer (1 µm) is equivalent to one-millionth of a meter. The specific usage of the Micro Sign can depend on the particular conventions of a discipline, but it generally serves as a unit prefix in the metric system to signify submultiples of metric units. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | µ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | µ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | µ | |
| URL Escape Code | %C2%B5 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xB5 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001010110101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x00B5 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000B5 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00B5" | |
| CSS Code | \00B5 | |
| JavaScript | "\u00B5" | |
| Perl | \x{00B5} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00B5" | |
| Python 3 | \u00B5 | |
| Ruby | \u{00B5} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this µ in sentence and in bold like this µ and in italic like this µ.
input-group
Font size:
µ
12px
µ
16px
µ
20px
µ
28px
µ
36px
µ
48px
µ
72px
CSS Property: font-weight
µ
100
µ
200
µ
300
µ
400
µ
500
µ
600
µ
700
µ
800
µ
900
HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
µ
select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>µ</span>
span {
content: "\00B5";
}The symbol in different fonts
µ
-apple-system
µ
Apple Color Emoji
µ
Arial
µ
BlinkMacSystemFont
µ
Courier New
µ
Georgia
µ
Droid Sans
µ
Helvetica
µ
Noto Sans
µ
Oxygen
µ
Roboto
µ
"Segoe UI"
µ
sans-serif
µ
Segoe UI Emoji
µ
Segoe UI Symbol
µ
system-ui
µ
Times New Roman
µ
Ubuntu
µ
Verdana