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:
- 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.
| 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 |
Copy and paste these codes to use the Cent Sign character in text for websites, social media, messengers, or blog posts.
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