U+20BC "₼" Manat Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₼
U+20BC "₼" Manat Sign is the official currency symbol for the Azerbaijani manat, the national currency of Azerbaijan. Introduced into the Unicode Standard in version 5.2 as part of the Currency Symbols block, this character represents a stylized letter "m" with an extra horizontal stroke, derived from the Azeri Latin alphabet to signify the country's monetary unit. The symbol is used in financial and commercial contexts to denote amounts of manats, often placed before or after the numerical value depending on local convention.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20BC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Manat 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20bc |
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 |