U+2126

OHM SIGN

Lu — Uppercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
8486

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent OHM SIGN 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 E2 84 A6 226 132 166 3
UTF-16 LE 26 21 38 33 2
UTF-16 BE 21 26 33 38 2
UTF-32 LE 26 21 00 00 38 33 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 21 26 0 0 33 38 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

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

none
Ω
Ω
\2126
\u2126
%E2%84%A6
\u2126
8486

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
84
·
Byte 3
1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
A6
UTF-8: E2 84 A6 · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+2126

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Lowercase: U+03C9 GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA

Canonical decomposition — this character is equivalent to the sequence below under NFC/NFD normalization.

Nearby Characters in Letterlike Symbols