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U+00B1 ±

PLUS-MINUS SIGN

Sm — Math Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
177

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent PLUS-MINUS 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 C2 B1 194 177 2
UTF-16 LE B1 00 177 0 2
UTF-16 BE 00 B1 0 177 2
UTF-32 LE B1 00 00 00 177 0 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 B1 0 0 0 177 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) B1 177 1
Windows-1252 B1 177 1
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 81 7D 129 125 2
EUC-JP A1 DE 161 222 2
GBK A1 C0 161 192 2
Big5 A1 D3 161 211 2

Escape Sequences

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

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\B1
\u00B1
%C2%B1
\u00b1
177

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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 0 0 0 1
B1
UTF-8: C2 B1 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+00B1

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ET — European Terminator

Nearby Characters in Latin-1 Supplement