U+20A2 "₢" Cruzeiro Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₢
U+20A2 "₢" Cruzeiro Sign is a currency symbol that was historically used for the Brazilian cruzeiro, the official currency of Brazil from 1942 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1993. It consists of the letter "C" with a small vertical line or bar through it, resembling a stylized cent sign, and was employed in financial documents and pricing before being replaced by the Brazilian real. While the cruzeiro itself is now obsolete, the Unicode encoding preserves this symbol for historical reference, digital archiving, and occasional use in contexts discussing Brazil's monetary past.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20A2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cruzeiro 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 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20a2 |
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 |