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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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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>&#8373;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\20B5";
}

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