U+00AA "ª" Feminine Ordinal Indicator Unicode Character

U+00AA "ª" Feminine Ordinal Indicator is a typographic symbol used in several Romance languages, most notably Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician, to denote a feminine ordinal number, such as "1ª" for "primera" (first) or "2ª" for "segunda" (second). It appears as a superscript lowercase letter "a" and is typically placed after a numeral to indicate gender and order, contrasting with its masculine counterpart, the masculine ordinal indicator (U+00BA "º"). While often visually similar to the superscript letter "a" typed manually, the dedicated Unicode character ensures consistent rendering and proper alignment across digital text, and it can be input on many systems using keyboard shortcuts, such as Alt+0170 on Windows.