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Glyph for U+00A2
Source: Noto Sans

U+00A2 Cent Sign

U+00A2 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement 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. 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.

Etymologically, the word cent derives from the Latin centum meaning '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 &cent
HTML named entity ¢
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) A2
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) A2
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CENT SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Latin-1 Supplement
General Category (gc) Currency Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) European Terminator
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) narrow
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Postfix Numeric
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+00A2 Cent Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R