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Technical information

Symbol	©
Name	Copyright sign
Unicode number	U+00A9
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character ©, or U+00A9, is known as the "Copyright Sign". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character is categorized under "Symbol, Other". Visually, it represents the letter 'C' encircled, which stands for copyright. The symbol is used globally to denote copyright protection on intellectual property, such as books, music, artwork, films, and more. It is typically accompanied by the name of the copyright holder and the year of copyright. The presence of this symbol generally indicates that the work is protected by copyright law, and use of the work may require permission from the copyright owner.

Encoding

HTML Entity	©
HTML Entity (hex)	©
HTML Entity (named)	©
URL Escape Code	%C2%A9
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xA9
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010101001
UTF-16	0x00A9
UTF-32	0x000000A9

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00A9"
CSS Code	\00A9
JavaScript	"\u00A9"
Perl	\x{00A9}
Python 2	u"\u00A9"
Python 3	\u00A9
Ruby	\u{00A9}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#169;</span>

span {
    content: "\00A9";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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