U+20B6 "₶" Livre Tournois Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₶
U+20B6 "₶" Livre Tournois Sign is a historical currency symbol representing the livre tournois, a unit of account used in France from the 13th century until the French Revolution, named after the town of Tours. Although no longer in circulation, the symbol appears in modern digital text for historical, numismatic, or scholarly purposes, such as when quoting old French financial records or discussing pre-revolutionary monetary systems. Its inclusion in the Unicode currency symbols block allows for consistent digital representation across platforms and fonts, preserving a link to medieval economic history. The character itself resembles a stylized capital "L" with a double bar, distinguishing it from other livre symbols.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20B6 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Livre Tournois 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20b6 |
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 | Postfix 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 |