Degree Symbol ° to Copy & Paste
The degree symbol ° is not part of ASCII — it lives in Unicode at U+00B0 (and in the Latin-1 extension). It is fully supported on every modern device. Use it for temperatures (72°F) and angles (90°). A common mistake is grabbing the masculine ordinal º (U+00BA) by accident; it looks similar but is a different character, so copy the correct ° below.
How to type the degree symbol on Windows and Mac
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0176 on the numeric keypad to insert °. This is the reliable code across applications. You can also use the Character Map app and search for "degree". On a Mac, press Option+Shift+8 to type ° directly. On an iPhone or iPad, press and hold the 0 key on the number pad and the ° option appears. On Android, the ° is under the symbols keyboard, often behind the long-press of the 0 key as well.
Degrees in HTML and code
In HTML, write ° or ° to render ° regardless of file encoding. For a temperature you can combine it, for example 20°C. There are also precomposed characters ℃ (U+2103) and ℉ (U+2109), but style guides generally prefer writing the degree sign plus a normal letter (°C, °F) rather than the single-glyph versions. In source code and JSON, the escape \u00B0 represents the degree sign. Watch out for the masculine ordinal º (U+00BA) sneaking in from autocorrect or a Spanish keyboard layout — it will fail equality checks against a real degree sign.