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Cent Sign HTML entity ¢
¢ is the HTML entity for Cent Sign ¢ (U+00A2). Copy the decimal ¢ and hex ¢ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
¢- Legacy form
¢(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00A2
- Unicode name
- CENT SIGN
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Currency symbol (Sc)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ¢Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ¢Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ¢Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\A2";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00A2"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00a2"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{CENT SIGN}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C2%A2Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 A22 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00A21 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The cent sign, written after the number: 99¢. It is in Latin-1 and in HTML 4, so it works in any encoding and every browser.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
Browsers also accept the legacy form ¢ without a semicolon, for compatibility with old pages; new HTML should always end the reference with a semicolon.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).