U+20BF "₿" Bitcoin Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
₿
U+20BF "₿" Bitcoin Sign is a currency symbol officially added to the Unicode Standard in version 10.0, released in June 2017. It represents bitcoin, the decentralized digital cryptocurrency that was introduced in 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The design of the sign features a capital letter B with two vertical strokes running through it, similar to other currency symbols like the dollar sign or the euro sign, and it serves as a standardized way to denote bitcoin in digital text and financial contexts globally.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20BF |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Bitcoin 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 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20bf |
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 |