Key facts
- In unicode
- U+20AC € EURO SIGN ( & euro; )
- Currency
- Euro
- See also
- U+20A0 ₠ EURO-CURRENCY SIGN (predecessor).
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Based on
- E/e
- Image
- Euro symbol black.svg
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- Unicode code point
- 20AC
- Unicode character
- €
- HTML entity
- €
- Commons category
- Euro sign
- Unicode block
- Currency Symbols
- Unicode character name
- EURO SIGN
- inception
- 1996-12-12
- TeX string
- \texteuro
- symbol of
- euro
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Encyclopedic overview
The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon), crossed by two lines instead of one. Depending on convention in each nation, the symbol can either precede or follow the value, e.g., €10 or 10 €, often with an intervening space.
Design
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “euro sign” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.