Cent Sign
Part of Currency
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0162 on the numeric keypad to insert cent sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0162
- HTML entity
- ¢
- Unicode
- U+00A2
About this symbol
The cent sign marks hundredths of the dollar and of other currencies. On American manual typewriters it was the shifted character on the 6 key. ASCII, the character set behind early computers, left it out, and computer keyboards gave that key to the caret ^, so most keyboards today have no key for it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- CENT SIGN
- Type
- Currency symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Currency chart for related characters.