Unicode Character "¤" (U+00A4)

The character ¤ (Currency Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00A4. 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 Currency Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+00A4
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+00A4 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¤
HTML (hex) ¤
HTML (named) ¤
URL Escape Code %C2%A4
CSS \0000A4
JavaScript, JSON \u00A4
C, C++, Java \u00A4
Python \u00A4
Rust \u{00A4}
Ruby \u00A4

How to type "¤"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A 4. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A 4. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xA4
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00A4
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000A4

References