U+20AF "₯" Drachma Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₯
U+20AF "₯" Drachma Sign is a typographic symbol representing the drachma, the former official currency of Greece before it adopted the euro in 2001. This character was included in the Unicode Currency Symbols block to support historical and legacy financial documents, as the drachma had a long history dating back to ancient Greece and was used in various modern forms until its replacement. The sign itself is a stylized combination of the Greek letters delta and rho, with a horizontal bar, resembling its handwritten or printed representation in Greek commerce. Its digital presence allows for accurate representation of past economic data, historical texts, and numismatic references in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20AF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Drachma 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20af |
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 |