The hryvnia sign (â‚´) is a
currency symbol, used for the
Ukrainian hryvnia currency since 2004.
Description
The hryvnia sign is a
cursive
Cursive (also known as script, among other names) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionalit ...
minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
Ukrainian Cyrillic letter He (''г''), or a mirrored letter S, with a double horizontal stroke, symbolising stability, similar to that used in other currency symbols such as ¥ or €. Hryvnia is abbreviated "грн" (hrn) in Ukrainian. The hryvnia sign ₴ was released in March 2004.
The specific design of the hryvnia sign was a result of a public contest held by the
National Bank of Ukraine in 2003.
The bank announced that it would not take any special steps of promoting the sign, but expressed expectations that the recognition and the technical possibilities of rendering the sign would follow. As soon as the sign was announced, a proposal to encode it was written. The sign is Unicode encoded as since version 4.1 (2005).
The symbol appears in the
filigree
Filigree (also less commonly spelled ''filagree'', and formerly written ''filigrann'' or ''filigrene'') is a form of intricate metalwork used in jewellery and other small forms of metalwork.
In jewellery, it is usually of gold and silver, ma ...
of the 1 hryvnia and the recently introduced 1,000 hryven banknote.
See also
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Ukrainian hryvnia
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Currency symbol
References
External links
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Michael Everson'
Proposal to encode the HRYVNIA SIGN and CEDI SIGN in the UCS 2004-04-23
Symbols introduced in 2004
Currencies of Ukraine
Currency symbols
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
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