White Circle vs Degree Sign

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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White Circle

U+25CB
°

Degree Sign

U+00B0

Property Comparison

Property White Circle Degree Sign
Codepoint U+25CB U+00B0
Decimal 9675 176
HTML Entity ○ °
HTML Decimal ○ °
HTML Hex ○ °
UTF-8 E2 97 8B C2 B0
UTF-16 25 CB 00 B0
UTF-32 000025CB 000000B0
CSS Escape \25CB \B0
JS Escape \u25CB \u00B0
Python Escape \u25CB \u00B0
URL Encoded %E2%97%8B %C2%B0
Category Other Symbol (So) Other Symbol (So)
Block Geometric Shapes Latin-1 Supplement
Script Common Common
Bidi Class ON ET
Unicode Version 1.1 1.1
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.