Technical information

Symbol
NameDegree fahrenheit
Unicode numberU+2109
CategoryLetterlike Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ℉, or U+2109, is known as the "Degree Fahrenheit". It belongs to the "Letterlike Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is used to denote temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, a unit of temperature commonly used in the United States and a few other countries. The symbol itself is composed of an "F" with a small circle (the degree symbol) before it. It's important to note that in scientific and international contexts, the Celsius and Kelvin scales are more commonly used.

Encoding

HTML Entity℉
HTML Entity (hex)℉
URL Escape Code%E2%84%89
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x84 0x89
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000100:10001001
UTF-160x2109
UTF-320x00002109

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2109"
CSS Code\2109
JavaScript"\u2109"
Perl\x{2109}
Python 2u"\u2109"
Python 3\u2109
Ruby\u{2109}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ℉ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8457;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2109";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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