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The astronomical unit is abbreviated either as au or AU.

Special non-SI units, such as the British thermal unit, abbreviated BTU or Btu, or the US gallon, for obvious reasons.

Note, however, that the kelvin follows the rule for units named after people: 1 kelvin, abbreviated as 1 K. degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit, abbreviated as ☌ and ☏, as stated in the quote above. The International System of Units (SI), 8th ed., Sec. 4.1 The alternative symbol, capital L, was adopted by the 16th CGPM (1979, Resolution 6 CR, 101 and Metrologia, 1980, 16, 56-57) in order to avoid the risk of confusion between the letter l (el) and the numeral 1 (one). The litre, and the symbol lower-case l, were adopted by the CIPM in 1879 (PV, 1879, 41). It is also sometimes rendered in lowercase cursive form ℓ for the same reason: The symbol for litre or liter is l, but is often written as L to prevent it from looking like the digit 1. Note that the names of the units themselves are lowercase.

1 angstrom or 1 ångström, abbreviated as 1 Å.

Symbols for SI units named after people, for example: However, capitalization is used in the following cases: The International System of Units (SI), 8th ed., Sec. 5.2 In keeping with this rule, the correct spelling of the name of the unit with the symbol ☌ is "degree Celsius" (the unit degree begins with a lower-case d and the modifier Celsius begins with an upper-case C because it is a proper name). In English, the names of units start with a lower-case letter (even when the symbol for the unit begins with a capital letter), except at the beginning of a sentence or in capitalized material such as a title. Unit names are normally printed in roman (upright) type, and they are treated like ordinary nouns. For SI units, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures is the authority: No, units generally do not need capitalization when spelled out.