0x20A0

0x20A0 refers to the Unicode code point U+20A0, which sits in the Currency Symbols block of the Unicode standard. The character is officially named EURO-CURRENCY SIGN and is intended to represent the European Currency Unit (ECU), an accounting unit used within the European Community prior to the adoption of the euro.

Historically, the ECU served as a unit of account in European monetary affairs during the 1990s. With the introduction of the euro for accounting in 1999 and the release of euro cash in 2002, the ECU ceased to function as a circulating or official currency. The EURO-CURRENCY SIGN remains in Unicode mainly for historical records and compatibility with legacy data and documents.

In digital text, U+20A0 can be encoded as the hexadecimal form 0x20A0 or the decimal code point 8352. In HTML it can be written as ₠ or ₠. Rendering depends on the font in use; some fonts provide a glyph for the symbol, while others may display a placeholder or map the code point to a different character.

Today the symbol is rarely used in modern monetary notation, with the euro sign (€) serving as the standard symbol for European currency. U+20A0 is thus primarily of interest for historical texts, legacy data, or technical documentation about Unicode and currency symbols.

Related symbols include the Euro Sign (€) at U+20AC and other currency signs such as the Won Sign (₩) at U+20A9.