What ₻ means
It stands for the mark, a Nordic unit of money. The mark began as a weight of silver, became an accounting unit, and was later also struck as a coin. The sign labels historical sums, not one current Scandinavian currency.
The sign is documented in Denmark and Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg used it in print for sums measured in marks of silver or gold, placing it after the number.
Why does ₻ look different in different fonts?
Its flourished m can vary from one font to another. A typeface may draw the curl tightly or make the flourish plainer.
A related German mark sign is ℳ, a later form. Its connection is historical: it is not simply another font drawing of ₻.
Archival and typographic; it signals historical Nordic money rather than everyday spending.
Use ₻ for historical Nordic marks, not as a general symbol for modern kroner prices.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ₻ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ₻
- Also called
- Mark sign
- Search it as
- nordic mark · old mark currency · flourished m
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
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