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Glyph for U+20BC
Source: Noto Sans

U+20BC Manat Sign

U+20BC was added to Unicode in version 7.0 (2014). 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+20BC 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 manat (ISO code: AZN; sign: ; abbreviation: m) is the currency of Azerbaijan. It is subdivided into 100 gapiks.

The first iteration of the currency happened in the times of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and its successor, the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, with the issues happening in 1919–1923. The currency underwent hyperinflation, and was eventually substituted by the Transcaucasian ruble, which, in its turn, was converted to the Soviet ruble. In Soviet times, the common currency of the Soviet Union was known as manat in the Azeri language.

When Azerbaijan gained independence from the Soviet Union, it substituted the Soviet ruble with the manat, which also went through a period of high inflation in the first years, rendering the coinage obsolete. The current manat in circulation exists since the denomination in 2006, when 5,000 old manat (AZM) were substituted with the new currency. The currency has mostly been pegged to the US dollar, at what is now the rate of ₼1.70 to US$1.

The Azerbaijani manat symbol was added to Unicode as U+20BC ₼ MANAT SIGN in 2013. A lowercase m was used previously, and may still be encountered when the manat symbol is unavailable.

Representations

System Representation
8380
UTF-8 E2 82 BC
UTF-16 20 BC
UTF-32 00 00 20 BC
URL-Quoted %E2%82%BC
HTML hex reference ₼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ₼

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 7.0 (2014)
Unicode Name MANAT 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+20BC Manat Sign
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+20BC Manat Sign
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+20BC Manat Sign
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+20BC Manat Sign
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+20BC Manat Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+20BC Manat Sign
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+20BC Manat Sign
Case Folding Glyph for U+20BC Manat 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+20BC Manat 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+20BC Manat Sign
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+20BC Manat 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+20BC Manat 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+20BC Manat Sign
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R