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Glyph for U+00A4
Source: Noto Sans

U+00A4 Currency Sign

U+00A4 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written as end of a European number, e.g., a currency symbol, from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+00A4 prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The currency sign ¤ is a character used to denote an unspecified currency. It can be described as a circle the size of a lowercase character with four short radiating arms at 45° (NE), 135° (SE), 225° (SW) and 315° (NW). It is raised slightly above the baseline. The character is sometimes called scarab.: 5 

Representations

System Representation
Nº 164
UTF-8 C2 A4
UTF-16 00 A4
UTF-32 00 00 00 A4
URL-Quoted %C2%A4
HTML hex reference ¤
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ¤
HTML named entity &curren
HTML named entity ¤
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A2 B4
Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) FD
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) A4
LATEX \textcurrency
AGL: Latin-1 currency
AGL: Latin-2 currency
AGL: Latin-3 currency
AGL: Latin-4 currency
AGL: Latin-5 currency
Adobe Glyph List currency
digraph Cu

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CURRENCY SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Latin-1 Supplement
General Category (gc) Currency Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) European Terminator
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Prefix Numeric
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+00A4 Currency Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R