U+20A1 "₡" Colon Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₡
U+20A1 "₡" Colon Sign is a currency symbol used to represent the colón, the official monetary unit of Costa Rica and formerly of El Salvador. The symbol itself is derived from the letter C with a double stroke or slash running through it, visually distinguishing it from the cent sign. In digital text, this character allows for the precise and standardized representation of the colón, ensuring clarity in financial documents and international exchange contexts where the currency abbreviation CRC or SVC might also appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20A1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Colon 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20a1 |
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 |