Unicode Character "µ" U+00B5 Micro Sign

Summary

The unicode character "µ" at code point U+00B5 is Micro Sign. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "µ" is 0xC2 0xB5 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00B5.

General Properties

Code Point	U+00B5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Micro Sign
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu

Encodings

HTML Entity	µ
HTML Decimal Encoding	µ
HTML Hex Encoding	µ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC2 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x00B5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000000B5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u00b5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Μ" U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Μ" U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Uppercase Code Point	"Μ" U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Titlecase Code Point	"Μ" U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
Simple Case Folding	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Case Folding	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
NFKC Simple Casefold	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower