Degree Celsius
Part of Math Symbols
Degree Celsius has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ℃
- Unicode
- U+2103
About this symbol
The Celsius scale is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius, who proposed it in 1742. His original scale ran the other way, with 0 for boiling water and 100 for freezing. Jean-Pierre Christin in Lyon proposed the modern direction in 1743, and the reversed scale soon became the standard one.
Unicode keeps ℃ as one character for compatibility with East Asian character sets. In ordinary text the recommended form is the degree sign followed by a capital C, as in 21 °C.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DEGREE CELSIUS
- Also called
- Degrees centigrade
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Letterlike Symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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