U+20BA "₺" Turkish Lira Sign Unicode Character

U+20BA "₺" Turkish Lira Sign is a currency symbol designed to represent the Turkish lira, the official currency of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Officially adopted in 2012, the sign combines the letter "L" with a double vertical stroke, symbolizing stability and value, and was chosen through a national competition organized by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. It is encoded in the Currency Symbols block of Unicode, allowing for consistent digital representation across different platforms and software, which is essential for financial transactions and economic communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+20BA
Version Added	6.2
Name	Turkish Lira 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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x20BA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000020BA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u20ba

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