html-entity

²

²

²

HTML named character reference ² maps to U+00B2.

Mapping

Named reference
²
Code point(s)
U+00B2
Decimal
178
Characters
²

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (²) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02