What ₣ means
No: F was the official notation. A 1962 decree specified F; the barred-F proposal in 1988 never became ordinary practice.
The French franc began in 1360 as a coin to help pay a king’s ransom. It became France’s legal currency in 1795; the 1803 Germinal law tied its value to metal. France switched to the euro in 2002.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Fr Fr is a two-letter abbreviation for franc, unlike the dedicated ₣ sign.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
3A price of one hundred French francs.
France swapped the franc for euro cash in 2002.
France's old currency, the franc.
Questions people ask
1Why can ₣ look different across fonts?
It can; font-dependent forms include a barred F, F and r joined into one shape, or another F-based design.
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Collections with ₣
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How to type or find ₣
- Search it as
- ₣ · franc sign · FRF · barred F
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
₣CSS
\20A3Character picker
In a character picker, search by name or enter U20A3.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
₣
HTML hex
₣
CSS content
content: "\20A3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%82%A3
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.