[Tex/LaTex] How to get the proper microsymbol, μ not mu, not \textmu because that looks ugly, but the clean one

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How do I get a clean looking \micro symbol µ ?

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I want a micro symbol, not a greek \mu, because that is another symbol.
However tex does not render the proper symbol, and the symbol that is does render looks like it was stolen from a different font.
The 2nd variant is not much better.

How do I get a \micro symbol that actually looks like it was not copy-pasted from comic-sans?

% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[euler]{textgreek}
%\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[active,tightpage,psfixbb]{preview}
\PreviewEnvironment{pgfpicture}

\setlength\PreviewBorder{0pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[x=1pt,y=1pt]
  \begin{scope}
  \path[clip] (  0.00,  0.00) rectangle (433.62,252.94);
  \definecolor{drawColor}{RGB}{0,0,0}

  \node[text=drawColor,anchor=base,inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt, scale=  1] at (242.01, 10.00) 
{Time in μ $\text{\textmu{}} \text{seconds}$, $n = 125\,000$};
% the unicode char "μ" does not render. And it has better not look like #2 above >-:< 
  \end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Best Answer

As you don't like the micro symbol from siunitx, I try something else:

Use unicode-math with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX

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\documentclass[margin=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\begin{document}
10 $\symup{\mu}$s
\end{document}

Edit:

As @Mico stated in the comments, you should combine unicode-math with siunitx by defining a new command – it is more natural IMHO:

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{unicode-math,siunitx} 
\newcommand\upmicro{\symup{\mu}} 
\begin{document} 
\SI{10}{\upmicro\second}
\end{document}
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