U+2109 DEGREE FAHRENHEIT

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Decimal / Nº
8457
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2109, officially named DEGREE FAHRENHEIT, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Letterlike Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8457 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 84 89 Copied!
UTF-16 21 09 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 09 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%84%89 Copied!
HTML hex reference ℉ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2109' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2109 Copied!
C and C++ \u2109 Copied!
C# \u2109 Copied!
CSS \002109 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8457) Copied!
Go \u2109 Copied!
JavaScript \u2109 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2109} Copied!
JSON \u2109 Copied!
Java \u2109 Copied!
Lua \u{2109} Copied!
Matlab char(8457) Copied!
Perl \x{2109} Copied!
PHP \u{2109} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2109' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2109} Copied!
Python \u2109 Copied!
Ruby \u{2109} Copied!
Rust \u{2109} Copied!