Currency Sign
Part of Currency
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0164 on the numeric keypad to insert currency sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0164
- HTML entity
- ¤
- Unicode
- U+00A4
About this symbol
¤ is the generic currency sign, a small circle with four short rays. Character sets used it as a stand-in for a local currency where no particular sign fits, and it sits at position 164 in Latin-1.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- CURRENCY SIGN
- Type
- Currency symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Generic or unknown currency
- Other currency symbol characters start at 20A0
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