Superscripts · Technical · NumbersU+00B2 · Latin-1 Supplement
²
Superscript Two
U+00B2 · decimal 178 · Latin-1 Supplement
Every way to write it
6 formsHTML entity
²
This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.
CSS content
\00B2
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u00B2
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u00B2
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%C2%B2
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
C2 B2
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 superscript two
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 178
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+00B2
EntityNumeric
UTF-82 bytes
ASCIINo