Cent Sign ¢

U+00A2

Symbol Meaning

This sign is used in America and Europe as an indication of currency. Similar sign of cents and centavos ¢ is a variation of the Latin letter C. The only difference is a vertical line crossing the letter. The meaning of the sign is the cent symbol entered in Unicode.

The other variation of the sign is also used for:

Ghanian cedi;
Costa Rican colons;
Turkmen writing;
as cent symbol.

The symbol “Cent Sign” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

This text is also available in: Русский;

Unicode Name	Cent Sign
Unicode Number
Entity	¢
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode Subblock	Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 155(English Keyboard Layout)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	00A2
Simple case change	00A2
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	C2 A2	194 162	49826	11000010 10100010
UTF-16BE	00 A2	0 162	162	00000000 10100010
UTF-16LE	A2 00	162 0	41472	10100010 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 A2	0 0 0 162	162	00000000 00000000 00000000 10100010
UTF-32LE	A2 00 00 00	162 0 0 0	2717908992	10100010 00000000 00000000 00000000