Masculine Ordinal Indicator

U+00BA

Masculine Ordinal Indicator is the Unicode character º at codepoint U+00BA 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

Unicode Codepoint
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UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
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CSS (\xxxx)
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How to Use Masculine Ordinal Indicator

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

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\BA';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u00BA' evaluates to º. In Python source, write '\u00BA'.

The character encodes to C2 BA as UTF-8 bytes and 00BA as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 186.

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