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Glyph for U+00A2
Source: Noto Sans

U+00A2 Cent Sign

U+00A2 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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
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 &cent
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CENT SIGN
Unicode 1 Name
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Currency Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category European Terminator
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Case Folding Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Narrow
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Postfix Numeric
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R