Degree Sign
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0176 on the numeric keypad to insert degree sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0176
- HTML entity
- °
- Unicode
- U+00B0
About this symbol
The degree sign measures angles, temperatures and positions on the globe, as in 90°, 21 °C or 51° N. One long-standing theory says it began as a small raised zero in the counting system of ancient astronomers, which was built on 60 and is why there are 60 minutes in a degree.
It is easily confused with two look-alikes: the masculine ordinal indicator º, used in Spanish and Portuguese for numbers such as 1º, and the ring above ˚. Each is a separate character, and only the degree sign should be used for degrees.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DEGREE SIGN
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is a spacing character
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.