Ordinal indicator

Ordinals are superscript letters are appended in different languages ​​digits to identify ordinals. Examples are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. in English.

Ordinal Ordinal -a and -o - ª and º

The characters ª ( ordinal a, Unicode: U 00 AA feminine ordinal indicator) and º ( ordinal o, U 00 BA masculine ordinal indicator) are used in several Romance languages ​​, to indicate the grammatical gender of ordinal numbers.

So you write 1 ° ( primero ) to indicate that it is, at the relevant number word, for example to the masculine numeral " the first ", analogous 1 ª ( primera ) if it is " the first " is the feminine counterpart.

In addition, ª is used in Spain in abbreviations such as G ª for García and M ª for María. ° occurs in the abbreviation V º B º ( visto bueno, notice of approval ) on.

In some fonts, the characters are underlined as a distinction for the degree sign.

Representation on computer systems

In LaTeX, the ordinals ª with \ textordfeminine and the ordinals ° with \ textordmasculine can be inserted. In ISO 6937 the ª with 0xE3 and ° is shown with 0xEB.

List of similar character

• ᵃ (U 1 D43 modifier letter small a, superscript "a")
• ᵒ (U 1 D52 modifier letter small o, the superscript "o" )
• ᴼ (U 1 D3C modifier letter capital o, superscript versales "O")
• ° (U 00 B0 degree sign, degree sign )
• ˚ (U 02 DA ring above, detached Kroužek )