U+20B7 "₷" Spesmilo Sign Unicode Character

U+20B7 "₷" Spesmilo Sign is a currency symbol representing the spesmilo, an obsolete unit of account proposed in the early 20th century by the Esperanto movement for international transactions, where it was equivalent to one thousandth of a spesdeko or roughly 0.733 grams of gold. Designed by René de Saussure, the symbol combines the letter "S" (for "speso," meaning money in Esperanto) with a vertical bar, and it was used primarily in pre World War I Esperanto banking and commerce before the idea fell into disuse. Officially added to the Unicode Standard in version 7.0 in 2014, the spesmilo sign now serves as a historical notation in digital texts, preserving a unique piece of linguistic and economic history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+20B7
Version Added	5.2
Name	Spesmilo 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 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x20B7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000020B7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u20b7

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