U+20AC "€" Euro Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+20AC "€" Euro Sign is the standardized code point assigned to the currency symbol for the euro, the official monetary unit of the Eurozone within the European Union. Designed to be recognizable and balanced, the character features a stylized capital letter C crossed by two horizontal lines, which represent stability and are inspired by the Greek letter epsilon. It was introduced to Unicode in version 2.1 in 1998 to accommodate the new currency ahead of its physical launch in 1999, ensuring consistent digital representation across all computer systems and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20AC |
| Version Added | 2.1 |
| Name | Euro 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20ac |