Technical information

Symbol
NameCedi sign
Unicode numberU+20B5
CategoryPresently Currency Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ₵, or U+20B5, is known as the "Cedi Sign". It belongs to the "Currency Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Currency" category in the Unicode standard. This character is used as the symbol for the Ghanaian cedi, which is the currency of Ghana. It is comparable to symbols such as the dollar sign ($) or euro sign (€). The Cedi Sign typically precedes the numerical amount of the currency it's representing. The design of the symbol resembles a capital letter "C" with two vertical lines running through it.

Encoding

HTML Entity₵
HTML Entity (hex)₵
URL Escape Code%E2%82%B5
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x82 0xB5
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000010:10110101
UTF-160x20B5
UTF-320x000020B5

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u20B5"
CSS Code\20B5
JavaScript"\u20B5"
Perl\x{20B5}
Python 2u"\u20B5"
Python 3\u20B5
Ruby\u{20B5}

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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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8373;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\20B5";
}

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

References