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U+00A4 CHARACTER

CURRENCY SIGN

Quick Facts

Unicode Name CURRENCY SIGN
Code Point U+00A4
Decimal Value 164
General Category Currency Symbol (Sc) →
Unicode Block Latin-1 Supplement →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes C2 A4
UTF-16 Code Unit 00A4
UTF-32 4 bytes 000000A4
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 A4 LE: A4 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 A4 LE: A4 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ¤
HTML Hexadecimal ¤
HTML Named Entity ¤
CSS Escape \0000A4
JavaScript (ES6) \u00A4
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u00A4
JSON Escape \u00A4
Python \u00A4
PHP "\u{A4}"
Java "\u00A4"
C / C++ "\u00A4"
Rust '\u{a4}'
URL Percent-Encoded %C2%A4

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ETEuropean Number Terminator
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+00A4 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
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Context: A ¤ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
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Context: A ¤ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A ¤ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ¤ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name CURRENCY SIGN

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+00A4

Related Characters & Collections

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Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's CURRENCY SIGN symbol library.
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