U+20B7 "₷" Spesmilo Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Spesmilo Sign
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common