€
Technical information
| Symbol | € | |
| Name | Euro sign | |
| Unicode number | U+20AC | |
| Category | Presently Currency Symbols | |
| Description | The 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-16 | 0x20AC | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000020AC |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u20AC" | |
| CSS Code | \20AC | |
| JavaScript | "\u20AC" | |
| Perl | \x{20AC} | |
| Python 2 | u"\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 €.
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Font size:
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12px
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20px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>€</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