What ℧ means
℧ means conductance: how readily electric current flows.
A mho is an older unit name for conductance, spelled from “ohm” backward; one mho equals one siemens. The earliest recorded use of mho is from 1884.
In 1971, the SI adopted siemens, symbol S, as the unit name and symbol for conductance. ℧ is therefore older or specialist notation.
Specialist electrical notation: mho is older terminology, while SI uses the siemens.
Use ℧ for conductance, not ordinary resistance.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ℧ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ℧
- Also called
- mho
- Search it as
- inverted omega · reciprocal ohm · conductance symbol · turned omega · siemens symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
℧CSS
\2127HTML
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℧ in HTML source; the numeric character reference renders as ℧.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
℧
HTML hex
℧
CSS content
content: "\2127";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%84%A7
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.