U+00A4 "¤" Currency Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00A4 "¤" Currency Sign is a typographic symbol used as a generic placeholder for an unspecified currency, often employed when a specific monetary symbol is not available or when representing a general unit of currency in contexts like spreadsheet formatting or international pricing. Its design typically features a small circle with four radiating lines, resembling a cross or a starburst, and it originated from earlier encoding standards such as ASCII, where it was included to allow for a non specific currency representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00A4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Currency Sign |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ¤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ¤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00a4 |