Unicode Character "°" (U+00B0)

The character ° (Degree Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00B0. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as °.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Degree Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+00B0
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class European Terminator (ET)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00B0 Conversion

HTML (decimal) °
HTML (hex) °
HTML (named) °
URL Escape Code %C2%B0
CSS \0000B0
JavaScript, JSON \u00B0
C, C++, Java \u00B0
Python \u00B0
Rust \u{00B0}
Ruby \u00B0

How to type "°"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 B 0. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 B 0. Release Alt.

Preview

  • °
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • °
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • °
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xB0
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00B0
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000B0

Characters based on "°" (U+00B0)

References