Cent symbol
Type :cent: · Currency
Unicode name Cent Sign · Latin-1 Supplement block · added in Unicode 1.1, 1993
What ¢ is for
The cent sign, now mostly a period piece: modern pricing writes $0.99 rather than 99¢. It survives on older signage and in the odd financial document, and it is still on the keyboard maps.
How to type ¢
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:cent: in any text field instead, which
is the same on every platform.
macOS
Option + 4
Windows
Alt + 0162
Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.
Shortcodes
:cent: On the web
HTML ¢
Unicode U+00A2
JavaScript '\u{00A2}'
CSS "\00A2"
Python '\u00A2'
URL %C2%A2
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