Degree symbol is °. Sometimes students or those who deal with mathematics, physics or various kinds of calculations may need to type a degree sign,but we do not have one directly on our keyboard. Degree symbol can be used in case if we're dealing with angles,or when we need to operate with temperature and use Celsius degree. It is also a common coordinate degree sign.Actually, there are a few ways to make a degree symbol.You can either copy paste, or use the degree code in your document. See some examples below:
Click the Character code box and type 00B0 then your will see degree symbol. Press the Insert button from symbol dialog box to type degree symbol in Word. After inserting the degree symbol, close the symbol dialog box. For example, you can insert fractions (½), a degree symbol (°), pi (π), or currency symbols, such as the British pound symbol (£). There’s a set of symbols and characters for each font set. To insert a symbol, place the cursor in your Word document where you want.
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Degree Symbol on Microsoft Windows PC
Press and hold the ALT keyand type 0176on the numeric keypad of your keyboard. Make sure the NumLock is on and type 0176 with the leading zero.If there is no numeric keypad, press and hold the Fn before typing the 0176 numbers of degree symbol.
Degree Symbol on Mac OS
Press and hold the SHIFTOPTION8 keys on your keyboard.
Degree Symbol in LaTeX
Degree symbol can be typed in LaTeX with using packages.
gensymb
circ
Celsius Degree Symbol
Fahrenheit Degree Symbol
Masculine Ordinal Indicator Symbol
Ring Above Symbol
Ring Below Symbol
Superscript Zero Symbol
Ring Operator Symbol
Degree Symbol Examples
Degree symbol in geometry.
- Right angle is 90°. (90 degrees)
- Straight angle is 180°. (180 degrees)
- Acute angle is less than 90°. (<90 degrees)
- Obtuse angle is greater than 90° and less than 90°. (>90 degrees and <180 degrees)
- Reflex angle is greater than 180°. (>180 degrees)
Degree symbol in geographic coordinate system.
- Latitude 32.344790 is equal to 32° 20' 41.244' N. (32 degrees North)
- Longitude -64.692307 is equal to 64°° 41' 32.3052' W. (64 degrees West)
Degree symbol in temperature measurements.
- 2°C : 2 degrees Celsius
- 20°C : 20 degrees Celsius
- 23°C : 23 degrees Celsius
- 10℃ : 10 degrees Celsius
- 15℃ : 15 degrees Celsius
- -21℃ : -21 degrees Celsius
Helpful Resources
- Unicode Charts unicode.org
- Character Entities dev.w3.org