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MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR

Lo — Other Letter
Latin
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
186

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 C2 BA 194 186 2
UTF-16 LE BA 00 186 0 2
UTF-16 BE 00 BA 0 186 2
UTF-32 LE BA 00 00 00 186 0 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 BA 0 0 0 186 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) BA 186 1
Windows-1252 BA 186 1
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP 8F A2 EB 143 162 235 3
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

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\BA
\u00BA
%C2%BA
\u00ba
186

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
C2
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Byte 2
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0
BA
UTF-8: C2 BA · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+00BA

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right

Compatibility decomposition (super) — the sequence below represents the same underlying meaning in a simpler form.

Nearby Characters in Latin-1 Supplement