U+20B4 "₴" Hryvnia Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₴
U+20B4 "₴" Hryvnia Sign is the official currency symbol for the Ukrainian hryvnia, which was introduced as a distinct monetary unit in 1996 during Ukraine's post Soviet financial reforms. The design of the symbol is derived from a cursive lowercase version of the Cyrillic letter "г" from the word hryvnia, and it features a horizontal double stroke that signifies stability and currency status, similar to other international monetary symbols. It is encoded in the Currency Symbols block of Unicode to enable proper digital representation in electronic documents and financial transactions across different platforms and operating systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20B4 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Hryvnia 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 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20b4 |
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 |