Currency Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing unique monetary signs. Many currency signs can be found in other Unicode blocks, especially when the currency symbol is unique to a country that uses a script not generally used outside that country.
| Currency Symbols | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+20A0..U+20CF (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Currency signs |
| Assigned | 33 code points |
| Unused | 15 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 11 (+11) |
| 2.0 (1996) | 12 (+1) |
| 2.1 (1998) | 13 (+1) |
| 3.0 (1999) | 16 (+3) |
| 3.2 (2002) | 18 (+2) |
| 4.1 (2005) | 22 (+4) |
| 5.2 (2009) | 25 (+3) |
| 6.0 (2010) | 26 (+1) |
| 6.2 (2012) | 27 (+1) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 30 (+3) |
| 8.0 (2015) | 31 (+1) |
| 10.0 (2017) | 32 (+1) |
| 14.0 (2021) | 33 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
The display of Unicode currency symbols among various typefaces is inconsistent, more so than other characters in the repertoire. The French franc sign (U+20A3) is typically displayed as a struck-through F, but various versions of Garamond display it as an Fr ligature. The peseta sign (U+20A7), inherited from code page 437, is usually displayed as a Pts ligature, but Roboto displays it as a Pt ligature and Arial Unicode MS displays it as a partially struck-through P. The rupee sign (U+20A8) is usually displayed as an Rs digraph, but Microsoft Sans Serif uses the quantity-neutral "Rp" digraph instead.
Block
edit| Currency Symbols[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+20Ax | ₠ | ₡ | ₢ | ₣ | ₤ | ₥ | ₦ | ₧ | ₨ | ₩ | ₪ | ₫ | € | ₭ | ₮ | ₯ |
| U+20Bx | ₰ | ₱ | ₲ | ₳ | ₴ | ₵ | ₶ | ₷ | ₸ | ₹ | ₺ | ₻ | ₼ | ₽ | ₾ | ₿ |
| U+20Cx | ⃀ | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Currency Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+20A0..20AA | 11 | (to be determined) | |||
| L2/19-010 | "Representative glyph for U+20A9 ₩ WON SIGN", Comments on Public Review Issues (Sept 14, 2018 - January 11, 2019), 2019-01-11 | |||||
| 2.0 | U+20AB | 1 | N1092R | Encoding the Vietnamese currency symbol in the BMP [UTC/1995-014], 1995-03-06 | ||
| N1203 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.2.1", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva | |||||
| UTC/1995-xxx | "Proposal from TCVN/TCI on Vietnamese Currency Symbol Dong", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #65, Minutes, 1995-06-02 | |||||
| N1232 | Usage of Dong Symbol, 1995-06-20 | |||||
| N1315 | Updated Table of replies and national body feedback on pDAM7 - Additional characters (SC2 N2656), 1996-01-09 | |||||
| N1539 | Table of Replies and Feedback on Amendment 7 – Hebrew etc., 1997-01-29 | |||||
| L2/97-127 | N1563 | Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-27), Draft Report on JTC1 letter ballot on DAM No. 7 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 (33 additional characters) | ||||
| N1572 | Paterson, Bruce (1997-06-23), Almost Final Text – DAM 7 – 33 additional characters | |||||
| L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "5.3.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 | ||||
| 2.1 | U+20AC | 1 | N1567 | Ross, Hugh McGregor (1997-06-06), The Euro Currency Symbol | ||
| L2/97-081 | N1566 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-06-23), EURO in ISO 10646 | ||||
| L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.24.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 | ||||
| L2/98-004R | N1681 | Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22 | ||||
| L2/98-318 | N1894 | Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22 | ||||
| 3.0 | U+20AD | 1 | L2/98-061 | N1720 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-02-27), KIP SIGN - Laotian Currency Sign | |
| L2/98-070 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "4.C.2", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 | |||||
| L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.15", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 | ||||
| L2/98-321 | N1905 | Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 23, AMENDMENT 23: Bopomofo Extended and other characters, 1998-10-22 | ||||
| U+20AE | 1 | L2/98-360 | N1857 | Sato, T. K. (1998-08-15), Addition of Tugrik sign on ISO/IEC 10646-1 | ||
| L2/98-372 | N1884R2 (pdf, doc) | Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS | ||||
| L2/98-329 | N1920 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28 | ||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.2.13", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| U+20AF | 1 | L2/99-025 | N1946 | Everson, Michael (1999-01-20), Addition of the DRACHMA SIGN to the UCS | ||
| L2/99-077.1 | N1975 | Irish Comments on SC 2 N 3210, 1999-01-20 | ||||
| N2021 | Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-05), FPDAM 30 Text - Additional Latin and other char. | |||||
| L2/99-232 | N2003 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "6.1.4 and 7.2.1.3", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 | ||||
| L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "6.4.5", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 | ||||
| L2/10-253 | N3866 | Everson, Michael (2010-07-19), Proposal to change the glyph of the DRACHMA SIGN | ||||
| 3.2 | U+20B0 | 1 | L2/98-309 | Dünßer, Elmar (1998-09-10), "Script D Symbol with Tail" alias "German Penny Symbol" | ||
| L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) | Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), "Symbol D with a Tail/German Penny Symbol", Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998 | |||||
| L2/00-092 | N2188 | Freytag, Asmus (2000-03-14), Proposal to add German Penny Symbol | ||||
| L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.8", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.21", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000, Disposition: Accept name change from GERMAN PENNY SYMBOL to GERMAN PENNY SIGN | ||||
| U+20B1 | 1 | L2/98-361 | N1858 | Sato, T. K. (1998-08-21), Addition of Peso sign on ISO/IEC 10646-1 | ||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.2.13", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| N2040 | Sato, Takayuki K. (1999-06-10), Peso sign | |||||
| L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "8.3", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 | ||||
| L2/00-013 | N2156 | Sato, T. K. (2000-01-06), Peso sign and Peseta sign (U-20A7) | ||||
| L2/00-053 | N2161 | Sato, T. K. (2000-02-20), Peso -- Character sample | ||||
| L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.6", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
| L2/00-115R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M2", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 | |||||
| 4.1 | U+20B2..20B3 | 2 | L2/03-095 | N2579 | Everson, Michael (2003-02-24), Proposal to encode the GUARANI SIGN and the AUSTRAL SIGN in the UCS | |
| U+20B4..20B5 | 2 | L2/04-139 | N2743 | Everson, Michael (2004-04-23), Proposal to encode the HRYVNIA SIGN and the CEDI SIGN in the UCS | ||
| 5.2 | U+20B6 | 1 | L2/07-332 | N3387 | Sewell, David R. (2007-11-24), Proposal to encode the Livre Tournois sign in the UCS | |
| L2/08-003 | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Livre Tournois Sign", UTC #114 Minutes | |||||
| L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.20c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 | ||||
| U+20B7 | 1 | L2/08-115 | N3390 | Everson, Michael (2008-03-06), Proposal to encode the Esperanto SPESMILO SIGN in the UCS | ||
| L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.20d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 | ||||
| L2/08-161R2 | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C28", UTC #115 Minutes | |||||
| U+20B8 | 1 | L2/08-116 | N3392 | Everson, Michael (2008-03-06), Proposal to encode the Kazakh TENGE SIGN in the UCS | ||
| L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.20e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 | ||||
| L2/08-161R2 | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Kazakh Tenge Sign", UTC #115 Minutes | |||||
| 6.0 | U+20B9 | 1 | N3868 | Deka, Rabin (2010-07-15), Letter in support of India's National Currency Symbol | ||
| L2/10-251 | Deka, Rabin (2010-07-16), Proposal to Encode India's National Currency Symbol | |||||
| L2/10-249R | N3862R | Everson, Michael (2010-07-19), Proposal to encode the INDIAN RUPEE SIGN in the UCS | ||||
| L2/10-258 | N3887 | Lata, Swaran (2010-07-19), Proposal to encode the Indian Rupee Symbol in the UCS | ||||
| N3869 | Proposal Summary Form for Indian Rupee Symbol, 2010-07-20 | |||||
| L2/10-299R | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-08-06), "RUPEE currency sign", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | |||||
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "D.2", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | |||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.02a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | |||||
| 6.2 | U+20BA | 1 | L2/11-353 | Moore, Lisa (2011-11-30), "C.8", UTC #129 / L2 #226 Minutes | ||
| L2/12-117 | N4258R | Everson, Michael (2012-04-17), Proposal to encode the Turkish Lira Sign | ||||
| L2/12-132 | N4273 | Uluırmak, Sacit (2012-04-27), Proposal to Encode the Turkish Lira Symbol in the UCS | ||||
| L2/12-112 | Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "C.5", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes | |||||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.01", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | |||||
| 7.0 | U+20BB | 1 | L2/12-242 | N4308 | Evensen, Nina Marie; Anderson, Deborah (2012-07-24), Proposal for one historic currency character, MARK SIGN | |
| L2/12-239 | Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "C.10", UTC #132 Minutes | |||||
| L2/12-371 | N4377 | Suignard, Michel (2012-10-24), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4239 (PDAM2.2 text to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition) | ||||
| L2/12-343R2 | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C10", UTC #133 Minutes, Change the name of U+20BB MARK SIGN to NORDIC MARK SIGN. | |||||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.05d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | |||||
| U+20BC | 1 | L2/11-231R | Yevstifeyev, Mykyta (2011-08-05), Revised Proposal to encode Azerbaijani manat sign in the UCS (minor update) | |||
| L2/11-366 | Pentzlin, Karl (2011-10-21), Additional evidence for the Azerbaijan Manat symbol as proposed in L2/11-231R | |||||
| L2/11-420 | N4163 | Pentzlin, Karl (2011-10-31), Letter from Central Bank of Azerbaijan Regarding Manat Sign | ||||
| L2/12-047 | N4168 | Proposal to add the currency sign for the Azerbaijani Manat to the UCS, 2011-11-10 | ||||
| L2/13-180 | N4445 | Pentzlin, Karl (2013-06-10), Proposal to add the currency sign for the Azerbaijani Manat to the UCS | ||||
| L2/13-132 | Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C5", UTC #136 Minutes, Accept U+20BC MANAT SIGN for encoding in Unicode 7.0 | |||||
| N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.3.8 Azerbaijani Manat currency sign", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 | |||||
| U+20BD | 1 | L2/14-039 | N4529 | Proposal to add the currency sign for the RUSSIAN RUBLE to the UCS, 2014-01-21 | ||
| L2/14-053 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "24", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/13-235R2 | N4512R2 | Everson, Michael (2014-02-04), Proposal to encode the RUBLE SIGN in the UCS | ||||
| L2/14-026 | Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "E.1.2", UTC #138 Minutes | |||||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.02a, M62.02e", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | |||||
| 8.0 | U+20BE | 1 | L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "14", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||
| L2/14-161R | N4593 | Shermazanashvili, Giorgi (2014-08-14), Adding Georgian Lari currency sign | ||||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Adding Georgian Lari currency sign (E.2)", UTC #140 Minutes | |||||
| L2/15-168 | Shermazanashvili, Giorgi (2015-07-06), The Lari Symbol: Implementation Principles and Supplementary Manual | |||||
| L2/15-204 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "12. Currency Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "B.13.3.1", UTC #144 Minutes | |||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11q", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | ||||
| N4739 | "6.3 E3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | |||||
| 10.0 | U+20BF | 1 | L2/11-129 | van Geloven, Sander (2011-03-24), Addition of Bitcoin Sign | ||
| L2/11-116 | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "C.14", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes | |||||
| L2/15-229 | Shirriff, Ken (2015-10-02), Proposal for addition of bitcoin sign | |||||
| L2/15-312 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), "9. Bitcoin", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "E.2", UTC #145 Minutes | |||||
| L2/19-243 | N5106 | Suignard, Michel (2019-06-20), "E1", Disposition of comments on ISO/IEC CD.2 10646 6th edition | ||||
| 14.0 | U+20C0 | 1 | L2/20-261 | Proposal to add the currency sign for the KYRGYZ SOM, 2020-07-10 | ||
| L2/20-250 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "19. Currency Symbol", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/20-237 | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C20", UTC #165 Minutes | |||||
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References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.