Technical information

Symbol
NameNaira sign
Unicode numberU+20A6
CategoryPresently Currency Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ₦, or U+20A6, represents the "Naira Sign". The Naira is the currency of Nigeria. This character is similar to the English capital letter 'N' with a stroke (or line) drawn vertically in the middle. It's a symbol that's used to denote prices or costs in Nigerian currency. The name "naira" is a shortening of "Nigeria", where this currency is used.

Encoding

HTML Entity₦
HTML Entity (hex)₦
URL Escape Code%E2%82%A6
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x82 0xA6
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000010:10100110
UTF-160x20A6
UTF-320x000020A6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u20A6"
CSS Code\20A6
JavaScript"\u20A6"
Perl\x{20A6}
Python 2u"\u20A6"
Python 3\u20A6
Ruby\u{20A6}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ₦ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8358;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\20A6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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