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U+00A9 CHARACTER

COPYRIGHT SIGN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name COPYRIGHT SIGN
Code Point U+00A9
Decimal Value 169
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Latin-1 Supplement →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes C2 A9
UTF-16 Code Unit 00A9
UTF-32 4 bytes 000000A9
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 A9 LE: A9 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 A9 LE: A9 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ©
HTML Hexadecimal ©
HTML Named Entity ©
CSS Escape \0000A9
JavaScript (ES6) \u00A9
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u00A9
JSON Escape \u00A9
Python \u00A9
PHP "\u{A9}"
Java "\u00A9"
C / C++ "\u00A9"
Rust '\u{a9}'
URL Percent-Encoded %C2%A9

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+00A9 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
©
Context: A © Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
©
Context: A © Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
©
Context: A © Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
©
Context: A © Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name COPYRIGHT SIGN

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+00A9

Related Characters & Collections

©
Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's COPYRIGHT SIGN symbol library.
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