Feminine Ordinal Indicator

U+00AA

Feminine Ordinal Indicator is the Unicode character ª at codepoint U+00AA in the Latin-1 Supplement block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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UTF-8 (hex)
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How to Use Feminine Ordinal Indicator

To use the Feminine Ordinal Indicator symbol (ª) in HTML, insert the entity ª directly into your markup. The decimal entity ª works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\AA';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u00AA' evaluates to ª. In Python source, write '\u00AA'.

The character encodes to C2 AA as UTF-8 bytes and 00AA as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 170.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026