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Technical information

Symbol	¢
Name	Cent sign
Unicode number	U+00A2
Category	Presently Currency Symbols Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character ¢, or U+00A2, is known as the "Cent Sign". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Symbol, Currency" category. Visually, it is depicted as a lowercase letter 'c' with a vertical line through it. The Cent Sign is commonly used in financial contexts to represent the cent, which is 1/100th of a unit of currency in many countries, notably the United States, Canada, and various others. It is typically used when discussing prices or amounts that are less than one unit of the relevant currency. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Cent Sign can depend on its context and the particular currency system in use.

Encoding

HTML Entity	¢
HTML Entity (hex)	¢
HTML Entity (named)	¢
URL Escape Code	%C2%A2
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xA2
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010100010
UTF-16	0x00A2
UTF-32	0x000000A2

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00A2"
CSS Code	\00A2
JavaScript	"\u00A2"
Perl	\x{00A2}
Python 2	u"\u00A2"
Python 3	\u00A2
Ruby	\u{00A2}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¢ in sentence and in bold like this ¢ and in italic like this ¢.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#162;</span>

span {
    content: "\00A2";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

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