Degree Celsius ℃

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Celsius degree is a unit of temperature measurement. It was named after the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius, who invented and proposed this scale in 1742. The letter “C” in the degree symbol is the first letter of the surname Celsius written in Latin (Celsius). Nowadays, this scale is the most popular in the world. The only places where it's not used are the United States and neighboring territories, where Fahrenheit degrees are preferred.

Zero degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water freezes. One hundred degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water boils, under normal atmospheric pressure. One degree Celsius is equal to one Kelvin.

The symbol “Degree Celsius” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

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Synonyms

degrees centigrade.

Unicode Name Degree Celsius
Unicode Number
HTML Code
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Unicode Block Letterlike Symbols
Unicode Subblock Letterlike symbols
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Letterlike Symbols
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 2103
Simple case change 2103
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 84 83 226 132 131 14845059 11100010 10000100 10000011
UTF-16BE 21 03 33 3 8451 00100001 00000011
UTF-16LE 03 21 3 33 801 00000011 00100001
UTF-32BE 00 00 21 03 0 0 33 3 8451 00000000 00000000 00100001 00000011
UTF-32LE 03 21 00 00 3 33 0 0 52494336 00000011 00100001 00000000 00000000

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