Units · ScienceU+00B5 · Latin-1 Supplement
µ
Micro Sign
U+00B5 · decimal 181 · Latin-1 Supplement
Every way to write it
7 formsHTML entity
µ
A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.
HTML numeric
µ
The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.
CSS content
\00B5
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u00B5
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u00B5
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%C2%B5
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
C2 B5
2 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search micro sign
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 181
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+00B5
EntityNamed
UTF-82 bytes
ASCIINo