Technical information

Symbol
NameInverted ohm sign
Unicode numberU+2127
CategoryLetterlike Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ℧, or U+2127, is known as the "Inverted Ohm Sign". It belongs to the "Letterlike Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of the ohm sign but in an inverted position. Historically, it was used to represent the unit of electrical resistance, although the standard ohm sign (Ω) is more commonly used today. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity℧
HTML Entity (hex)℧
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%84%A7
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x84 0xA7
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000100:10100111
UTF-160x2127
UTF-320x00002127

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2127"
CSS Code\2127
JavaScript"\u2127"
Perl\x{2127}
Python 2u"\u2127"
Python 3\u2127
Ruby\u{2127}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ℧ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

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HTML Forms and Input

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8487;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2127";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
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Oxygen
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"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
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Ubuntu
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