Degree Fahrenheit ℉
Symbol Meaning
Unlike the Celsius scale, the Fahrenheit temperature scale is not related to changes in the state of water. It is actively used in the United States, Canada, and some other countries and is not part of the International System of Units. As for other countries, the Fahrenheit scale is mostly known thanks to Ray Bradbury's book and imported meteorological devices.
If you want to utilize or describe the Fahrenheit scale, use a special symbol from Unicode to denote temperature. The Degree Fahrenheit symbol consists of a superscript circle and a capital letter “F” and is included in Letterlike Symbols2100–214F . By the way, there is also a degree symbol in Unicode — °.
The symbol “Degree Fahrenheit” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Degree Fahrenheit |
| 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 | 2109 |
| Simple case change | 2109 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 89 | 226 132 137 | 14845065 | 11100010 10000100 10001001 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 09 | 33 9 | 8457 | 00100001 00001001 |
| UTF-16LE | 09 21 | 9 33 | 2337 | 00001001 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 09 | 0 0 33 9 | 8457 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00001001 |
| UTF-32LE | 09 21 00 00 | 9 33 0 0 | 153157632 | 00001001 00100001 00000000 00000000 |