U+00B0 Degree Sign
U+00B0 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 9 other glyphs. In text U+00B0 behaves as Postfix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “degree” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: degree, hour, proof.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The degree symbol or degree sign, °, is a typographical symbol that is used, among other things, to represent degrees of arc (e.g. in geographic coordinate systems), hours (in the medical field), degrees of temperature or alcohol proof. The symbol consists of a small superscript circle.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 176 |
| UTF-8 | C2 B0 |
| UTF-16 | 00 B0 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 B0 |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%B0 |
| HTML hex reference | ° |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ° |
| HTML named entity | ° |
| HTML named entity | ° |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 C6 |
| Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | F8 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-10 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 EB |
| Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | 9C |
| Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | 9C |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | A1 |
| LATEX | \textdegree |
| AGL: Latin-1 | degree |
| AGL: Latin-2 | degree |
| AGL: Latin-3 | degree |
| AGL: Latin-4 | degree |
| AGL: Latin-5 | degree |
| Adobe Glyph List | degree |
| digraph | DG |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DEGREE SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| European Terminator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Degree Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Degree Sign | |
| Degree Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Degree Sign | |
| Degree Sign | |
| Degree Sign | |
| Degree Sign | |
| Degree Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Degree Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Degree Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Degree Sign | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Postfix Numeric | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Degree Sign | |
| R |