Micro Sign
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0181 on the numeric keypad to insert micro sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0181
- HTML entity
- µ
- Unicode
- U+00B5
About this symbol
The micro sign stands for the prefix micro-, one millionth, as in µm for micrometre or µg for microgram. It is drawn like the Greek small letter mu, μ, but Unicode keeps it as a separate character because older character sets, such as Latin-1, had it as one.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MICRO SIGN
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.