Unicode Character "²" U+00B2 Superscript Two
Unicode Version 15.1
²
Summary
The unicode character "²" at code point U+00B2 is Superscript Two. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is an other number. The UTF-8 encoding of "²" is 0xC2 0xB2 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00B2.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00B2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Superscript Two |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Superscript Digit Two |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Number |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "2" U+0032 Digit Two |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ² |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ² |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ² |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00B2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000B2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00b2 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Digital |
| Numeric Value | 2 |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "2" U+0032 Digit Two |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "2" U+0032 Digit Two |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Syllable Modifier |
| ID Compat Math Continue | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |