U+20A3 "₣" French Franc Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₣
U+20A3 "₣" French Franc Sign is a currency symbol representing the former official currency of France, the franc, which was replaced by the euro in 2002. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Currency Symbols block, allowing for its use in digital text to denote amounts in French francs, particularly in historical contexts or specialized financial documents. The sign itself is an uppercase "F" with a double horizontal stroke through its vertical stem, a design intended to distinguish it from other currency symbols and to evoke the abbreviation "F" for franc, though its adoption was limited compared to more widely used symbols like the dollar or euro sign.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20A3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | French Franc 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20a3 |
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 |