DEGREE SIGN
- Category
- So — Other Symbol
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Script
- Common
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 176
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent DEGREE SIGN in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 B0 | 194 176 | 2 |
| UTF-16 LE | B0 00 | 176 0 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 00 B0 | 0 176 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | B0 00 00 00 | 176 0 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 00 B0 | 0 0 0 176 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | B0 | 176 | 1 |
| Windows-1252 | B0 | 176 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | B0 | 176 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | not supported | ||
| KOI8-R | 9C | 156 | 1 |
| Shift-JIS | 81 8B | 129 139 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A1 EB | 161 235 | 2 |
| GBK | A1 E3 | 161 227 | 2 |
| Big5 | A2 58 | 162 88 | 2 |
Escape Sequences
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View U+00B0 on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- ET — European Terminator