DEGREE FAHRENHEIT

About this character

U+2109 is the Unicode compatibility character for the degree Fahrenheit symbol (°F), a combined unit sign denoting temperature on the Fahrenheit scale. Primarily used in United States customary contexts for weather reporting, cooking, and medical measurements, it originated from Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s 1724 temperature system. In digital typography, the precomposed glyph is discouraged in favor of separate characters (° and F) to avoid rendering inconsistencies across fonts. Programmers and technical writers typically invoke the decimal code `℉` or directly type the degree sign plus letter, since U+2109 lacks semantic meaning in markup. Still, historical documents and legacy encodings may employ it for compact representation of this common unit.

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