U+20A5 Mill Sign
U+20A5 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 Neutral 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+20A5 behaves as Prefix 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 “mill” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: mil.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The mill (American English) or mil (Commonwealth English, except Canada) is a unit of currency (sometimes symbolized as ₥), used in several countries as one-thousandth of the base unit. In the United States, it is a notional unit equivalent to a thousandth of a United States dollar (a hundredth of a dime or a tenth of a cent). In the United Kingdom, it was proposed during the decades of discussion on decimalisation as a 1⁄1000 division of sterling's pound. While this system was never adopted in the United Kingdom, the currencies of some British or formerly British territories did adopt it, such as the Palestine pound and the Maltese lira.
The term comes from the Latin "millesimum", meaning "thousandth part".
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8357 |
UTF-8 | E2 82 A5 |
UTF-16 | 20 A5 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 20 A5 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%82%A5 |
HTML hex reference | ₥ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â‚¥ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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