Degree Celsius ℃
Symbol Meaning
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Celsius degree is a unit of temperature measurement. It was named after the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius, who invented and proposed this scale in 1742. The letter “C” in the degree symbol is the first letter of the surname Celsius written in Latin (Celsius). Nowadays, this scale is the most popular in the world. The only places where it's not used are the United States and neighboring territories, where Fahrenheit degrees are preferred.
Zero degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water freezes. One hundred degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water boils, under normal atmospheric pressure. One degree Celsius is equal to one Kelvin.
The symbol “Degree Celsius” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
degrees centigrade.
| Unicode Name | Degree Celsius |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2103 |
| Simple case change | 2103 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 83 | 226 132 131 | 14845059 | 11100010 10000100 10000011 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 03 | 33 3 | 8451 | 00100001 00000011 |
| UTF-16LE | 03 21 | 3 33 | 801 | 00000011 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 03 | 0 0 33 3 | 8451 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00000011 |
| UTF-32LE | 03 21 00 00 | 3 33 0 0 | 52494336 | 00000011 00100001 00000000 00000000 |