Glyph for U+20A4 Source: Noto Sans
U+20A4 Lira Sign
U+20A4 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+20A0 to U+20CF Currency Symbols 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. 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+20A4 prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph .
The CLDR project calls this character “lira” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: currency.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The pound sign (£ ) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England. The same symbol is used for other currencies called pound, such as the Egyptian and Syrian pounds. The sign may be drawn with one or two bars depending on personal preference, but the Bank of England has used the one-bar style exclusively on banknotes since 1975.
In the United States, "pound sign" refers to the symbol # (number sign). In Canada ”pound sign” can mean £ or # .
Representations
System
Representation
Nº
8356
UTF-8
E2 82 A4
UTF-16
20 A4
UTF-32
00 00 20 A4
URL-Quoted
%E2%82%A4
HTML hex reference
₤
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
₤
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 B2 34
AGL: Latin-4
lira
AGL: Latin-5
lira
Adobe Glyph List
afii08941
Adobe Glyph List
lira
digraph
Li
Related Characters
Confusables
Complete Record
Property
Value
Age (age)
1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)
LIRA SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
—
Block (blk)
Currency Symbols
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+20A4 Lira Sign
Lowercase (Lower)
✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira Sign
Uppercase (Upper)
✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira Sign
Case Folding (cf)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira 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+20A4 Lira 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)
✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
✘
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+20A4 Lira Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)
Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira 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+20A4 Lira Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)
None
East Asian Width (ea)
neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)
Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
—
Joining Group (jg)
No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)
Non Joining
Line Break (lb)
Prefix Numeric
Numeric Type (nt)
none
Numeric Value (nv)
not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)
Glyph for U+20A4 Lira Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)
R