U+20AB Dong Sign
U+20AB was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996. It belongs to the block Currency Symbols 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. 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+20AB prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The dong (Vietnamese: đồng) (; Vietnamese: [ˀɗɜwŋ͡m˨˩]; sign: ₫ or informally đ in Vietnamese; code: VND) has been the currency of Vietnam since 3 May 1978. It is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam. The dong was also the currency of the predecessor states of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, having replaced the previously used French Indochinese piastre.
Formerly, it was subdivided into 10 hao (hào), which were further subdivided into 10 xu, neither of which are now used due to inflation. The Vietnamese dong has increasingly moved towards exclusively using banknotes, with lower denominations printed on paper and denominations over 10,000 dong, worth about 40¢ dollar or euro, printed on polymer. As of 2022, no coins are used. Generally, Vietnam is moving towards digital payments. The 500,000-dong note (VND) is the highest-denomination banknote in circulation in Vietnam. The note is dark blue in color and has been in circulation since 2003.
As of August 2024, the Vietnamese dong is the third-lowest valued currency unit (behind the Iranian rial and the Lebanese pound), with one United States dollar equaling 25,135 dong.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8363 |
| UTF-8 | E2 82 AB |
| UTF-16 | 20 AB |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 AB |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%82%AB |
| HTML hex reference | ₫ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â‚« |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | FE |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 B3 31 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | dong |
| AGL: Latin-5 | dong |
| Adobe Glyph List | dong |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 2.0 (1996) | |
| DONG SIGN | |
| — | |
| Currency Symbols | |
| Currency Symbol | |
| Common | |
| European Terminator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Dong Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Dong Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Dong Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Dong Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Dong Sign | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Prefix Numeric | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Dong Sign | |
| R |