℃
Technical information
| Symbol | ℃ | |
| Name | Degree celsius | |
| Unicode number | U+2103 | |
| Category | Letterlike Symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ℃, or U+2103, is known as the "Degree Celsius". It belongs to the "Letterlike Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. This character is a universally recognized unit of measurement for temperature. The degree Celsius is used worldwide for most temperature reporting. It is used in science, industry, and everyday life to measure and express temperature, from weather forecasting to cooking. The symbol consists of a small circle (representing the degree) followed by the letter C, standing for Celsius, named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ℃ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ℃ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%84%83 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x84 0x83 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000100:10000011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2103 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002103 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2103" | |
| CSS Code | \2103 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2103" | |
| Perl | \x{2103} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2103" | |
| Python 3 | \u2103 | |
| Ruby | \u{2103} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ℃ in sentence and in bold like this ℃ and in italic like this ℃.
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Font size:
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>℃</span>
span {
content: "\2103";
}The symbol in different fonts
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana