€Euro symbol
The euro sign. On a keyboard without it, this is the fastest way to type one.
Looking for the colour emoji instead? 💶 Euro Banknote — same idea, drawn as a picture by each platform.
- Unicode
- U+20AC
- Alt code
- Alt+8364
- HTML
- €
- Unicode name
- Euro Sign
Where the Euro symbol comes from
The euro sign is the only major currency symbol designed by committee and dated precisely: the European Commission unveiled it in December 1996, two years before the currency existed. The shape is a Greek epsilon — a nod to the cradle of Europe — crossed by two lines meant to signal stability.
Prices, invoices and anything financial across the eurozone. Worth knowing that placement is not universal: €10 in Ireland and the Netherlands, 10 € with a space in France and Germany, and the decimal separator flips with it.
Euro symbol codes
Copy whichever form your tool expects. The character behind them does not change.
How to type € on any keyboard
Keyboard, code, markup or document — the route to U+20AC differs by tool.
Will € actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Safe everywhere. This one is in almost every font ever installed, including the defaults on Windows, Mac and Android.
Symbols people confuse with €
Close enough to be mistaken for it, and still a different code point every time.
Other currency symbols
The rest of the family, one page each — origin, typing routes and font support, across all 5.
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