This code point first appeared in version 1.1 of the Unicode® Standard and belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block which goes from 0x80 to 0xFF.
You can safely add this character in your html code with the entity: ±
You can use the u+00B1 copy pc button below.
Easy u+00B1 copy paste:
Unicode meta-data
The following table show specific meta-data that is known about this character.The u+00B1 name is plus-minus sign emoji.
| field | value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint (hex) | 00B1, u00B1 |
| Character age | Unicode 1.1 |
| Legacy name (Unicode 1.0) | PLUS-OR-MINUS SIGN |
| Official name (Unicode 15.0) | PLUS-MINUS SIGN |
| resolved name | plus-minus sign |
| block | Latin-1 Supplement (Latin_1_Sup) |
| common typos | u+00B1, u+B001 |
There are alternative spelling that can be found in the wild for the unicode character 00B1 like u 00B1, (u+00B1) or u +00B1. You can also find u-00B1, u*00B1, un+00B1, u00B1, u=00B1 or c+00B1. You can also spell it with u 00B1 unicode, u plus 00B1, uncode 00B1 or unicode + 00B1.
Its bidirectional class is "ET":European Number Terminator (DEGREE SIGN, currency symbols, ...)
Glyphs and symbols in your browser
The following unicode chart presents different versions of the glyph corresponding to the unicode characters u+00B1 that are available on your computer.
In order to type this character easily, you may want to download and install a unicode Latin-1 Supplement keyboard.
A sample of fonts are used below to display whether the character has a glyph in this font or not.
Encodings (Unicode characters converter)
The following character table converter for +u00B1 allows you to see the value of the character in different encodings
| encoding | hexadecimal | decimal | binary |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 B1 | 49841 | 11000010 10110001 |
| UCS2 | B1 00 | 45312 | 10110001 00000000 |
| UTF-16LE | B1 00 | 45312 | 10110001 00000000 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 B1 | 177 | 10110001 |
| UTF7 | 2B 41 4C 45 2D | 185779111213 | 00101011 01000001 01001100 01000101 00101101 |
| UTF7-IMAP | 26 41 4C 45 2D | 164304274733 | 00100110 01000001 01001100 01000101 00101101 |