U+00A2 Cent Sign
U+00A2 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the 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 East Asian Width is 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+00A2 prohibits a line break before it, if it follows a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls 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. The word derives from the Latin centum, 'hundred'.
The cent sign is commonly a simple minuscule (lower case) letter c. In North America, the c is crossed by a diagonal or vertical stroke (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 Slovakia in 2022.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| 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: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A2 46 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A2 46 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 9B |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 96 |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | 9B |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 9B |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 9B |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | C0 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 91 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A2 46 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 F1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 F1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 F1 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 84 34 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 91 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 91 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 91 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | B1 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | B0 |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | B0 |
| 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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CENT SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Currency Symbol | |
| Common | |
| European Terminator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Cent Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Cent Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Cent Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Cent Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cent Sign | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Postfix Numeric | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Cent Sign | |
| R |