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Technical information
| Symbol | ₤ | |
| Name | Lira sign | |
| Unicode number | U+20A4 | |
| Category | Historic Currency Symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ₤, or U+20A4, is known as the "Lira Sign". It belongs to the "Currency Symbols" block in the Unicode standard. Historically, this symbol represented the currency of Italy before the country adopted the Euro. The lira was the official currency of Italy from the late 19th century until 2002. The Lira Sign was used to denote amounts in lira, much like the dollar sign is used for the US dollar or the pound sign for the British pound. With Italy's transition to the Euro, the use of the lira and its symbol has declined. However, the symbol is still encoded in Unicode for historical and archival purposes. The specific appearance of the lira sign can depend on the typeface or font in which it is displayed. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ₤ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ₤ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%82%A4 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x82 0xA4 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000010:10100100 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x20A4 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000020A4 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u20A4" | |
| CSS Code | \20A4 | |
| JavaScript | "\u20A4" | |
| Perl | \x{20A4} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u20A4" | |
| Python 3 | \u20A4 | |
| Ruby | \u{20A4} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ₤ in sentence and in bold like this ₤ and in italic like this ₤.
input-group
Font size:
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>₤</span>
span {
content: "\20A4";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana