U+20B3 "₳" Austral Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₳
U+20B3 "₳" Austral Sign is a currency symbol that was historically used to represent the austral, the former currency of Argentina, which was in circulation from 1985 to 1991 before being replaced by the peso. The symbol resembles a stylized letter "A" with a horizontal stroke through it, and it is classified within the Unicode Currency Symbols block. Although the austral is no longer legal tender, the character remains encoded in Unicode for historical reference and occasional use in financial or academic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20B3 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Austral 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 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20b3 |
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 |