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Copyright sign
U+00A9 · Latin-1 Supplement
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Meaning and uses
The copyright sign, a C in a circle. It marks a creative work as protected, as in © 2026 Your Name. In most countries copyright applies without it, but it tells people who owns the work.
Unicode details
© is the Unicode character named COPYRIGHT SIGN, code point U+00A9, in the Latin-1 Supplement block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).
It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “copyright”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.
| Unicode name | COPYRIGHT SIGN |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00A9 |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| Emoji name | copyright |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 A9 |
| UTF-16 | 00A9 |
| HTML | © or © |
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How to type ©
- On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
- On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “copyright”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “copyright”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 00a9, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
©or©. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\00A9".