U+FFE0 "￠" Fullwidth Cent Sign Unicode Character

U+FFE0 "￠" Fullwidth Cent Sign is a typographic variant of the standard cent sign (¢), designed to occupy the same width as a fullwidth character in East Asian typographic systems, such as those used for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text. It is part of the halfwidth and fullwidth forms block in Unicode, and its fullwidth appearance ensures consistent vertical alignment and monospaced spacing when used alongside other fullwidth symbols or characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFE0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Fullwidth Cent Sign
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator
Decomposition Type	Wide
Decomposition Mapping	"¢" U+00A2 Cent Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	￠
HTML Hex Encoding	￠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBF 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFE0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFE0
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffe0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Postfix Numeric
East Asian Width	Fullwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"¢" U+00A2 Cent Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold	"¢" U+00A2 Cent Sign
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other