Degree Sign °
Symbol Meaning
Using the key, the degree sign is printed with the combination Alt + 0176 (in windows). Works in Russian and English layouts, the numbers need to be pressed on the numeric keypad, Num Lock should be on. You can insert a degree sign with the mouse, the symbol is simply copied from this page.
A degree sign is a symbol that is used to indicate temperature or angle. In the case of an angle, the degree sign is immediately after the number, without a space (90 °). When it comes to temperature, it is separated from the number by a space, but is put together with the scale designation (24 ° C). In the Kelvin scale, temperature units are simply called «kelvin», the degree icon is not needed. In Unicode, alphabetic characters have signs with temperature scales: degrees Celsius ℃, Fahrenheit ℉, Kelvin K.
The symbol “Degree Sign” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Degree Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ° |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Latin-1 punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 248(English Keyboard Layout)
|
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 00B0 |
| Simple case change | 00B0 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 B0 | 194 176 | 49840 | 11000010 10110000 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 B0 | 0 176 | 176 | 00000000 10110000 |
| UTF-16LE | B0 00 | 176 0 | 45056 | 10110000 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 B0 | 0 0 0 176 | 176 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10110000 |
| UTF-32LE | B0 00 00 00 | 176 0 0 0 | 2952790016 | 10110000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |