Cruzeiro Sign

The Cruzeiro Sign at U+20A2 represents Brazil’s former cruzeiro currency in plain text and belongs to the Currency Symbols block. It is a monetary sign for a unit that no longer circulates, so its practical role today is mostly historical, archival, and bibliographic rather than everyday pricing. You may see it in digitized Brazilian newspapers, old price lists, bank documents, catalogs, accounting records, and museum or numismatic descriptions dealing with mid- and late-20th-century Brazil. It can mark amounts such as ₢100 in references to cruzeiros, although many sources instead write the currency name or use abbreviations because Brazil’s currency changed several times. In modern finance, the sign is uncommon; current Brazilian money uses the real, normally written with “R$”. The cruzeiro sign is most useful when preserving the typography of legacy material or distinguishing historical cruzeiro amounts from later Brazilian currencies in databases, transcriptions, and scholarly writing.