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U+00A4 · CURRENCY SIGN

Currency Sign

  • CodepointU+00A4
  • NameCURRENCY SIGN
  • Decimal164
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySc — Currency Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classET — European Terminator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00A4 (¤) is CURRENCY SIGN, a currency symbol in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ¤

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 A42 bytes
UTF-1600A41 code unit
UTF-32000000A44 bytes
HTML named¤named character reference
HTML decimal¤
HTML hex¤
CSS\A4in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00A4
JSON\u00A4
Python\u00A4
Python\N{CURRENCY SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u00A4
C / C++\u00A4universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{A4}
Go\u00A4
Ruby\u00A4
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(164)
URL-encoded%C2%A4percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+009EPMPrivacy Message U+009FAPCApplication Program Command U+00A0NBSPNo-Break Space U+00A1¡Inverted Exclamation Mark U+00A2¢Cent Sign U+00A3£Pound Sign U+00A5¥Yen Sign U+00A6¦Broken Bar U+00A7§Section Sign U+00A8¨Diaeresis U+00A9©Copyright Sign U+00AAªFeminine Ordinal Indicator