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Technical information

Symbol€
NameEuro sign
Unicode numberU+20AC
CategoryPresently Currency Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character €, or U+20AC, is known as the "Euro Sign". It falls under the "Currency Symbols" block and belongs to the "Symbol, Currency" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is used as the currency sign for the euro, the official currency of the Eurozone in the European Union, which includes 19 of the 27 member states. It's also used by the institutions of the European Union and four other European countries that are not EU members. Introduced in 1999, the design was the result of a public survey, and its shape and lettering style are intended to be generic representations of a currency symbol.

Encoding

HTML Entity€
HTML Entity (hex)€
HTML Entity (named)€
URL Escape Code%E2%82%AC
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x82 0xAC
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000010:10101100
UTF-160x20AC
UTF-320x000020AC

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u20AC"
CSS Code\20AC
JavaScript"\u20AC"
Perl\x{20AC}
Python 2u"\u20AC"
Python 3\u20AC
Ruby\u{20AC}

Preview

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

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8364;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\20AC";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References