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Cent Sign

Group: Currency

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About this character

Cent Sign belongs to the Currency group and is encoded at U+00A2. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+00A2
Hex
00A2
Decimal
162
HTML
¢
CSS
\A2
JavaScript
\u00A2
Python
\u00A2
UTF-8
C2 A2

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Related

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.