Home: go to the homepage U+20A0 to U+20CF Currency Symbols
Glyph for U+20B5
Source: Noto Sans

U+20B5 Cedi Sign

U+20B5 was added to Unicode in version 4.1 (2005). It belongs to the block U+20A0 to U+20CF Currency Symbols 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 Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. In text U+20B5 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 Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The cedi ( SEE-dee, pronounced in the same way as CD) (currency sign: GH₵; currency code: GHS) is the unit of currency of Ghana. It is the fourth historical and only current legal tender in the Republic of Ghana. One cedi is divided into one hundred pesewas (Gp).

After independence, Ghana separated itself from the British West African pound, which was the currency of the British colonies in the region. The new republic's first independent currency was the Ghanaian pound (1958–1965). In 1965, Ghana decided to leave the British colonial monetary system and adopt the widely accepted decimal system. The African name Cedi (1965–1967) was introduced in place of the old British pound system. Ghana's first President Kwame Nkrumah introduced Cedi notes and Pesewa coins in July 1965 to replace the Ghanaian pounds, shillings and pence. The cedi bore the portrait of the President and was equivalent to eight shillings and four pence (8s 4d), i.e. one hundred old pence, so that 1 pesewa was equal to one penny.

After the February 1966 military coup, the new leaders wanted to remove the face of Nkrumah from the banknotes. The "new cedi" (1967–2007) was worth 1.2 cedis, which made it equal to half of a pound sterling (or ten shillings sterling) at its introduction. Decades of high inflation devalued the new cedi, so that in 2007 the largest of the "new cedi" banknotes, the 20,000 note, had a value of about US$2. The new cedi was gradually phased out in 2007 in favor of the "Ghana cedi" at an exchange rate of 1:10,000. By removing four digits, the Ghana cedi became the highest-denominated currency unit issued in Africa. It has since lost over 90% of its value.

Representations

System Representation
8373
UTF-8 E2 82 B5
UTF-16 20 B5
UTF-32 00 00 20 B5
URL-Quoted %E2%82%B5
HTML hex reference ₵
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ₵
AGL: Latin-4 uni20B5
AGL: Latin-5 uni20B5

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 4.1 (2005)
Unicode Name CEDI SIGN
Unicode 1 Name
Block Currency Symbols
General Category Currency Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category European Terminator
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Case Folding Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi 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+20B5 Cedi 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+20B5 Cedi Sign
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi 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+20B5 Cedi Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Prefix Numeric
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+20B5 Cedi Sign
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R