ø

Technical information

Symbol	ø
Name	Latin small letter o with stroke
Unicode number	U+00F8
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 9. Letters

Description

The Unicode character ø, or U+00F8, is known as the "Latin Small Letter O with Stroke". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a lower case letter "o" that has a diagonal line or stroke through it. It's used in various languages, including Danish and Norwegian, where it represents a vowel sound. This letter is particularly significant because it's one of the few English-alphabet letters that have been modified with diacritical marks and adopted into the standard alphabets of some languages.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ø
HTML Entity (hex)	ø
HTML Entity (named)	ø
URL Escape Code	%C3%B8
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0xB8
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110111000
UTF-16	0x00F8
UTF-32	0x000000F8

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00F8"
CSS Code	\00F8
JavaScript	"\u00F8"
Perl	\x{00F8}
Python 2	u"\u00F8"
Python 3	\u00F8
Ruby	\u{00F8}

Preview

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

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#248;</span>

span {
    content: "\00F8";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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