U+20AB "₫" Dong Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₫
U+20AB "₫" Dong Sign is a currency symbol used to represent the Vietnamese đồng, the official currency of Vietnam. It is typically placed after the numerical amount, as in “10.000₫” for ten thousand đồng, and was encoded in the Unicode standard to facilitate electronic text processing and international financial communication. The symbol itself is a stylized lowercase letter "d" with a single or double horizontal stroke through its ascender, derived from the abbreviation "đ" for đồng, which helps distinguish it from other currencies that use the letter "d".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20AB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Dong 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20ab |
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 |