Ounce Sign
Part of Math Symbols
Ounce Sign has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ℥
- Unicode
- U+2125
About this symbol
℥ is the apothecaries’ ounce, from the old system of weights pharmacists used for medicines. An apothecaries’ ounce was 480 grains, divided into 8 drachms, each of 3 scruples, ℈, of 20 grains; prescriptions were written with these signs until metric units replaced them.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- OUNCE SIGN
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Letterlike Symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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