Unicode Character "¢" (U+00A2)

The character ¢ (Cent Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00A2. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ¢.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Cent Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+00A2
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class European Terminator (ET)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Currency Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00A2 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¢
HTML (hex) ¢
HTML (named) ¢
URL Escape Code %C2%A2
CSS \0000A2
JavaScript, JSON \u00A2
C, C++, Java \u00A2
Python \u00A2
Rust \u{00A2}
Ruby \u00A2

How to type "¢"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A 2. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A 2. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ¢
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ¢
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ¢
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xA2
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00A2
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000A2

Characters based on "¢" (U+00A2)

References