¤ Currency Sign
U+00A4
¤
ℹ️ About
The Currency Sign (¤), often called the “scarab,” is a character used to denote an unspecified currency unit. In technical software development and legacy encoding (like ISO 8859-1), it serves as a placeholder when the actual currency symbol (like $ or €) is not available or supported by the font. It belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block and has been a staple of Unicode since version 1.1.
⚠️ Note: Do not confuse with ° (Degree Sign) or specialized astronomical symbols.
⚡ Codes
HTML
¤
CSS
\00A4
Python
\u00A4
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