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Currency Symbols

U+20A0 – U+20CF   (8352–8399)

Characters 8355, 8356, 8359 and 8364 are present in Microsoft’s WGL4 character set. Character 8364 provides a Unicode equivalent for one of the characters in Apple’s MacRoman character set, and also in the latest version of Monotype’s Symbol font.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages. The entries in the “Entity” column are character entity references that can be used in HTML pages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Alexander, Alfios, Anaktoria, Arev Sans, Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Aroania, Atavyros, Avdira, Cardo, Caslon, Charis SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode, Code2000, Courier MonoThai, Courier New, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Sans Mono, Doulos SIL, EversonMono, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Free Sans, Free Serif, Garava, Gentium, GentiumAlt, GFS Bodoni, GFS Didot, GFS Neohellenic, Gulim Che, HAN NOM A, HAN NOM B, Hindsight Unicode, jGaramond, Kliment Std, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Linux Biolinum O, Linux Libertine O, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Malgun Gothic, Marin, MD King KhammuRabi, MgOldTimes UC Pol, MgOpen Canonica, Microsoft Sans Serif, MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, Minion Pro, Monospace, MPH 2B Damase, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS UI Gothic, OpenSymbol, PakType Naqsh, Palatino Linotype, ParabaikSans, PMingLiU, Quivira, RomanCyrillic Std, Roman Unicode, Rupakara, Sazanami Mincho, Segoe UI, SImPL, sixpack, StarSymbol, Sun-ExtA, Symbola, Tahoma, Times New Roman, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, UniBurma, Verajja, Verdana, Vusillus Old Face, XTashi, YOzFontN and Zawgyi-One; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts Apple Chancery, Capitals, Charcoal, Chicago, Gadget, Hoefler Text, Sand, Skia, Tahoma, Techno and Textile; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Apple Symbols, Arial, Charcoal, Gentium, GentiumAlt, Lucida Grande, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, PMingLiU, Sand and Times New Roman; and in the Unix Unicode font Caslon.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf.

The following currency symbols are not in the Currency Symbols range:

Copyright © 1999–2017 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 10.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2017 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in June 2017.

Created 3rd February 1999 – Last updated 20th June 2017