U+20B0 "₰" German Penny Sign Unicode Character

U+20B0 "₰" German Penny Sign is a currency symbol historically used for the German pfennig, a subunit of the German mark that was in circulation until the adoption of the euro in 2002. It resembles a lowercase "d" with a looped ascender, as it is derived from the Latin "denarius," and was commonly employed in German-speaking regions for pricing and accounting before being replaced by the "pf" abbreviation. This character was added to the Unicode standard in 2009 as part of the Currency Symbols block to support legacy financial documents and historical typography. Despite its limited modern use, the sign serves as a digital representation of Germany's pre-euro monetary heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+20B0
Version Added	3.2
Name	German Penny 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 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x20B0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000020B0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u20b0

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