Cent Sign

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:

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.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Unicode Name Cent Sign
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Entity ¢
Unicode Block Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode Subblock Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Alt Code
Alt 155(English Keyboard Layout)
Version 1.1
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 00A2
Simple case change 00A2
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

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