U+00B9 "¹" Superscript One Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+00B9 "¹" Superscript One is a typographic glyph used to denote the numeral one in a superscripted form, primarily found in mathematical expressions, footnotes, and ordinal indicators such as "1st" in some languages. It belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block and is encoded at code point 00B9 in Unicode, with a standardized HTML entity of `¹`. This character is distinct from the regular digit "1" and is often employed in scientific notation, chemical formulas, or text formatting to represent powers or indices, such as in "m¹" for meter per second or when indicating a footnote reference. Its appearance may vary slightly across fonts but generally appears as a smaller, raised version of the digit one, aligning with other superscript characters like ² and ³.

General Properties

Code Point U+00B9
Version Added 1.1
Name Superscript One
Unicode 1.0 Name Superscript Digit One
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Other Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class European Number
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "1" U+0031 Digit One

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ¹
HTML Hex Encoding ¹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC2 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x00B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000000B9
C/C++/Java Escape \u00b9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Digital
Numeric Value 1
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "1" U+0031 Digit One
NFKC Simple Casefold "1" U+0031 Digit One
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Compat Math Continue Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other