U+00A2 Cent Sign
U+00A2 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Currency Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+00A2 behaves as Postfix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “cent” for use in screen reading software.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals 1⁄100 of the basic monetary unit.
Etymologically, the word cent derives from the Latin centum meaning 'hundred'.
The cent sign is commonly a simple minuscule (lower case) letter c. In North America, the c is crossed by a diagonal stroke or a vertical line (depending on typeface), yielding the character ¢.
The United States one cent coin is generally known by the nickname "penny", alluding to the British coin and unit of that name. Australia ended production of their 1¢ coin in 1992, as did Canada in 2012. Some Eurozone countries ended production of the 1 euro cent coin, most recently Italy in 2018.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 162 |
UTF-8 | C2 A2 |
UTF-16 | 00 A2 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 A2 |
URL-Quoted | %C2%A2 |
HTML hex reference | ¢ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ¢ |
HTML named entity | ¢ |
HTML named entity | ¢ |
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | A2 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | A2 |
LATEX | \textcent |
AGL: Latin-1 | cent |
AGL: Latin-2 | cent |
AGL: Latin-3 | cent |
AGL: Latin-4 | cent |
AGL: Latin-5 | cent |
Adobe Glyph List | cent |
digraph | Ct |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CENT SIGN | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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Other | |
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Other | |
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Narrow | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Postfix Numeric | |
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