U+00A9 "©" Copyright Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
©
U+00A9 "©" Copyright Sign is a typographic symbol indicating legal copyright ownership of a work, such as text, music, or art. It is derived from the letter "C" enclosed within a circle, a design standardized in the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode. In digital contexts, it is commonly used in footers or disclaimers to assert that a creation may not be reproduced or distributed without the owner's permission. Although its use is not legally required in many jurisdictions today, it remains a widely recognized marker of intellectual property rights.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00A9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Copyright Sign |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | © |
| HTML Hex Encoding | © |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00a9 |