Degree Sign
U+00B0°Symbol · decimal °
Unit Symbols Copy & Paste
Copy 41 unit symbols for documents, labels and legal notices. The Miscellaneous Symbols block supplies most of them. 34 render as text and 7 as emoji.
Copy unit symbols
41 characters and sequences. Pick one to put its exact characters on your clipboard.
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Unit Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
Here are 12 representative rows out of 41. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above
U+00C5ÅLetter · decimal Å
Square Mm
U+339C㎜Symbol · decimal ㎜
Square M Cubed
U+33A5㎥Symbol · decimal ㎥
Square Mhz
U+3392㎒Symbol · decimal ㎒
Black Sun With Rays
U+2600☀Emoji or pictograph · decimal ☀
Sun
U+2609☉Symbol · decimal ☉
Last Quarter Moon
U+263E☾Symbol · decimal ☾
Tight Trifoliate Snowflake
U+2745❅Symbol · decimal ❅
Comet
U+2604☄Emoji or pictograph · decimal ☄
Square Km Capital
U+33CE㏎Symbol · decimal ㏎
Estimated Symbol
U+212E℮Symbol · decimal ℮
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Unit Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Unit characters and compatibility forms support measurements, though plain SI notation is often best for accessible technical text.
Marks for documents that need to be exact: legal, medical and measurement. That amounts to 41 copyable values here — 41 of them one character long, 0 longer.
Names such as Degree Sign, Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above, Square Mm, Square M Cubed appear here, and counting every entry puts Degree Sign (1), Degree Celsius (1), Degree Fahrenheit (1) at the top. Single-character values span U+00B0 to U+33D5.
Browse unit symbols by type
Symbol
29 entries
Letter
5 entries
Emoji or pictograph
7 entries
What is actually in these unit symbols
Where unit symbols sit in the code space
Counted across U+00B0 to U+33D5, the general-category split is symbol 36, letter 5.
How the official names cluster
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Degree Sign (1), Degree Celsius (1), Degree Fahrenheit (1).
Sequence construction
Of the sequences, 0 rely on a zero-width joiner and 0 on a variation selector; 1 code points is the longest single entry.
Narrowing it down
Watch out for Square Mm next to Square M Cubed. They are different characters: U+339C and U+33A5. Symbol is the safe default at 29 entries.
Save letter for when you mean exactly that. Want colour? Pick one of the 7 emoji.
Want it to match your text? Pick one of the 34 plain ones. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
We sort these by job rather than by Unicode category, so one group can hold several formal types.
29Symbol
Monochrome characters you can style like text. 71% here.
7Emoji or pictograph
Rendered in colour by Apple, Google or Microsoft. 17% here.
5Letter
Letterforms borrowed for their shape. 12% here.
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Unit Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
There are 41 unit symbols here. All of them copy in one click. 29 of them are symbol. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Miscellaneous Symbols. 34 are plain text. The other 7 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 3 groups divide
Expect symbol, letter and emoji or pictograph. 29 sit under symbol.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Miscellaneous Symbols (13), Letterlike Symbols (4) and Latin-1 Supplement (3). Across U+00B0 to U+33D5, support gets patchy at the newer end.
The pair people mix up
Compare Square Mm with Square M Cubed. Same shape, different code point.
Names repeat in families
1 names start with “Degree Sign”. The difference is at the end.
Words that describe unit symbols
These words describe the shapes, uses and character families you will meet in this collection.
- Symbol
- Letter
- Emoji or pictograph
- Unit
- Degree
- Celsius
- Fahrenheit
- Metric
- Measurement
- Ring
- Above
- Square
Side by side
| Type | Examples | Good for | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symbol | ° ℃ ℉ | Technical reports and measurements | Mixing up Degree Sign and Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above |
| Letter | K Å µ | Office labels and contact details | Expecting one rule to cover all 41 entries |
| Emoji or pictograph | ☀ ☁ ☂ | Legal, medical and professional notes | Treating these unit symbols as interchangeable with the visually similar characters in number symbols |
Measurement symbols must preserve value, unit and spacing
Unit characters range from ordinary SI notation to compatibility glyphs made for legacy East Asian typography. Plain letters are often safer for data exchange.
| Form | Meaning | Preferred practice |
|---|---|---|
| ° / ℃ / ℉ | Degree, Celsius compatibility sign and Fahrenheit sign | Follow the style guide; ordinary °C and °F are broadly interoperable. |
| µ / μ | Micro sign and Greek small mu | Use the form required by the scientific or standards context. |
| ㎜ ㎝ ㎞ | Square compatibility unit characters | Use mm, cm or km in searchable technical data unless legacy layout requires otherwise. |
| ㎡ / ㎥ | Compatibility square and cubic metre forms | Prefer m² and m³ when semantic superscripts are supported. |
Practical note: Never omit the numeric value or rely on visual similarity between unit symbols. Verify conversion, capitalization and spacing against the relevant measurement standard.
Related reading
Compare these choices with number symbols and currency symbols. For a deeper explanation, read How to Insert Symbols in Word, Excel and Google Docs. If one question is enough, read why do symbols break my csv or spreadsheet?.
Tip: Pair anything decorative with real text. That is what search engines index and what screen readers announce.
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How to use unit symbols
Copying stores text, so the value survives the clipboard intact. Paste it with Ctrl V, ⌘ V or your device's Paste command.
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Technical reports and measurements
Start with Degree Sign. It works nearly everywhere.
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Office labels and contact details
When handling office labels and contact details, the 29 symbol entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Legal, medical and professional notes
When creating legal, medical and professional notes, paste the complete entry — all of these are single code points, so a partial copy is not a risk here.
Copy-ready unit symbols examples for technical reports and measurements
Technical reports and measurements
° Unit referenceOffice labels and contact details
° ℃ ℉Legal, medical and professional notes
℉ unit °05
How to type unit symbols on a keyboard
Every character here has a numeric identity, and that number is what the keyboard methods use: decimal on a Windows keypad, hexadecimal in Word and on macOS.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ° | Degree Sign | Alt 176 | 00B0 | ° |
| Å | Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above | Alt 197 | 00C5 | Å |
| ㎜ | Square Mm | Alt 13212 | 339C | ㎜ |
| ㎥ | Square M Cubed | Alt 13221 | 33A5 | ㎥ |
| ㎒ | Square Mhz | Alt 13202 | 3392 | ㎒ |
| ☀ | Black Sun With Rays | Alt 9728 | 2600 | ☀ |
Alt codes reach only the first 65,536 code points, and only from a numeric keypad. For the Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile detail, read the keyboard guide.
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How unit symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Miscellaneous Symbols is the main home for these, with 65% of the set. The rest come from Letterlike Symbols and Latin-1 Supplement. 34 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. The other 7 are emoji. Your phone or computer paints those in colour.
A pasted entry is redrawn by the receiving application's font. Expect small differences in width and weight across devices, and larger ones where a font lacks the character entirely.
41Single characters
0Sequences
7Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with unit symbols
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Mixing up Degree Sign and Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above.
- 2
Expecting one rule to cover all 41 entries.
- 3
Treating these unit symbols as interchangeable with the visually similar characters in number symbols.
- 4
Reaching for one of the 7 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Unit Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Square Mm and Square M Cubed?+
Different code points, similar shapes. Square Mm sits at U+339C and Square M Cubed at U+33A5, so search, sorting and screen readers treat them as unrelated characters even where they look the same.
What is the HTML code for degree sign?+
Write ° (hex) or ° (decimal) to get °. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which unit symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
Look for the 34 non-emoji entries. Those behave like letters — style them, colour them, put them in a heading. The 7 emoji entries are drawn by the operating system instead.
Which Unicode block are these unit symbols in?+
Chiefly Miscellaneous Symbols, which accounts for 13; the rest come from Letterlike Symbols and Latin-1 Supplement. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Which unit symbol should I choose?+
Watch out for <b>Square Mm</b> next to <b>Square M Cubed</b>. They are different characters: U+339C and U+33A5. <b>Symbol</b> is the safe default at <b>29</b> entries. Save letter for when you mean exactly that. Want colour? Pick one of the <b>7</b> emoji. Want it to match your text? Pick one of the <b>34</b> plain ones. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
How many unit symbols are on this page?+
41: 41 single Unicode characters and 0 multi-code-point sequences, of which 7 carry emoji properties. They divide into 3 groups, the largest being symbol with 29 entries.
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Learn more about unit symbols
Useful alongside these unit symbols
Professional documents need numerals in a form that survives conversion, and text free of hidden characters that a converter might trip over.
Roman Numeral ConverterConvert whole numbers from 1 to 3,999 into ordinary Latin-letter Roman numerals for broad compatibility.Open the number converter →Invisible Character InspectorReveal zero-width spaces, joiners and direction marks without changing the text you paste into the inspector.Open the text inspector →
Pair a unit symbol with styled letters in the Symbol Maker. The full set of converters, inspectors and previews sits in the Unicode tools hub.
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Where this data comes from
Every figure on this page is computed from the stored inventory of 41 entries. Names, general categories and code points are generated from the Unicode 17.0 character database rather than typed by hand; emoji membership is read from the emoji data files published alongside it.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data