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Technical information

Symbol	¤
Name	Currency sign
Unicode number	U+00A4
Category	Presently Currency Symbols Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character ¤, or U+00A4, is known as the "Currency 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 represented as a crossed circle or lozenge shape. The Currency Sign is a generic symbol used to denote currency when no specific symbol is available or when the actual currency symbol is not known. It is often used in systems that lack the capability to display the actual currency symbol or in situations where the currency is not specified. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Currency Sign can depend on its context.

Encoding

HTML Entity	¤
HTML Entity (hex)	¤
HTML Entity (named)	¤
URL Escape Code	%C2%A4
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xA4
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010100100
UTF-16	0x00A4
UTF-32	0x000000A4

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00A4"
CSS Code	\00A4
JavaScript	"\u00A4"
Perl	\x{00A4}
Python 2	u"\u00A4"
Python 3	\u00A4
Ruby	\u{00A4}

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>&#164;</span>

span {
    content: "\00A4";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

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

Verdana

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