U+20AA "₪" New Sheqel Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₪
U+20AA "₪" New Sheqel Sign is the official currency symbol for the Israeli new shekel, often simply called the shekel. It is formed by combining the first Hebrew letters of the words "shekel" (ש) and "chadash" (ח), meaning "new," though it visually resembles a stylized "NIS" (the common English abbreviation for New Israeli Shekel) or an interlocking shape. Introduced in 1985 to replace the hyperinflated old shekel, the sign is used in Israel to denote the country's legal tender in financial transactions, price tags, and digital displays.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20AA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | New Sheqel 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20aa |
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 |