U+20A0 "₠" Euro-Currency Sign Unicode Character

U+20A0 "₠" Euro-Currency Sign is a typographic symbol that was originally proposed in the early 1990s as a potential symbol for the European Currency Unit (ECU), the precursor to the euro. It features an uppercase 'C' crossed by two parallel horizontal bars, resembling a stylized "E" for Europe. However, this character was never adopted for actual currency use, as the official euro sign (€, U+20AC) was chosen instead in 1996. Today, the Euro-Currency Sign is primarily a historical or curiosity character in Unicode, occasionally used in legacy documents or as a placeholder in finance software, but it lacks widespread practical application.

General Properties

Code Point	U+20A0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Euro-Currency Sign
Block	Currency Symbols
General Category	Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	₠
HTML Hex Encoding	₠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x82 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x20A0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000020A0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u20a0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Prefix Numeric
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other