°

Degree Sign

U+00B0
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character °
Entity °
Decimal °
Hex °

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+00B0
Decimal
176
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ET European Number Terminator
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Degree Sign.

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Format Value
HTML Named Entity
°
HTML Decimal
°
HTML Hex
°
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
C2 B0
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 B0
UTF-32 Hex
000000B0
CSS Escape
\B0
JavaScript Escape
\u00B0
Python Escape
\u00B0
URL Encoded
%C2%B0
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Degree Sign as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.