Ounce Sign ℥
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is commonly used to denote the apothecary ounce, It’s a unit of weight that was used in the preparation and sale of medicinal products. The problem is that in different countries and even cities, the apothecary ounce varied and denoted different masses – from 25 to 35 grams. Therefore, it gradually became irrelevant.
The Unicode ounce symbol can be used in historical research, scientific papers on the development of pharmacy, and other texts. It seems that the original meaning of this symbol has kicked the bucket, so nothing bad will happen if you simply decorate your social media post or nickname with this little hook.
The symbol “Ounce Sign” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Ounce Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2125 |
| Simple case change | 2125 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 A5 | 226 132 165 | 14845093 | 11100010 10000100 10100101 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 25 | 33 37 | 8485 | 00100001 00100101 |
| UTF-16LE | 25 21 | 37 33 | 9505 | 00100101 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 25 | 0 0 33 37 | 8485 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00100101 |
| UTF-32LE | 25 21 00 00 | 37 33 0 0 | 622919680 | 00100101 00100001 00000000 00000000 |