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U+00B1 CHARACTER

PLUS-MINUS SIGN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name PLUS-MINUS SIGN
Code Point U+00B1
Decimal Value 177
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) →
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 B1
UTF-16 Code Unit 00B1
UTF-32 4 bytes 000000B1
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 B1 LE: B1 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 B1 LE: B1 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ±
HTML Hexadecimal ±
HTML Named Entity ±
CSS Escape \0000B1
JavaScript (ES6) \u00B1
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u00B1
JSON Escape \u00B1
Python \u00B1
PHP "\u{B1}"
Java "\u00B1"
C / C++ "\u00B1"
Rust '\u{b1}'
URL Percent-Encoded %C2%B1

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 ETEuropean Number Terminator
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+00B1 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name PLUS-MINUS SIGN

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

Identifier U+00B1

Related Characters & Collections

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Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's PLUS-MINUS SIGN symbol library.
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