Degree Sign vs Masculine Ordinal Indicator

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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°

Degree Sign

U+00B0
º

Masculine Ordinal Indicator

U+00BA

Property Comparison

Property Degree Sign Masculine Ordinal Indicator
Codepoint U+00B0 U+00BA
Decimal 176 186
HTML Entity ° º
HTML Decimal ° º
HTML Hex ° º
UTF-8 C2 B0 C2 BA
UTF-16 00 B0 00 BA
UTF-32 000000B0 000000BA
CSS Escape \B0 \BA
JS Escape \u00B0 \u00BA
Python Escape \u00B0 \u00BA
URL Encoded %C2%B0 %C2%BA
Category Other Symbol (So) Other Letter (Lo)
Block Latin-1 Supplement Latin-1 Supplement
Script Common Latin
Bidi Class ET L
Unicode Version 1.1 1.1
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.