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Plain text for the Bitcoin symbol

Bitcoin Asked by frеdsbend on February 18, 2021

It seems that the most widely used symbol for Bitcoin is a B with two vertical lines through it1. It makes sense, as a single letter with a line or two through it is common for many currencies. Is there a plain text printing for this symbol, or perhaps a font that can insert it into documents and the like? What about a hex code or something for HTML printing? I’m looking for other ways to denote the currency without using an image.


  1. With the symbols found here, it looks like a circle around it might become part of the official symbol as well. Maybe I should ask that separately.

5 Answers

Like Murch said, there isn't a current text based symbol for it, but if you're going to use it on a web application, you can always use Font Awesome.

After you include the fontawesome library, you use the bitcoin symbol like this:

<i class="fa fa-btc"></i> fa-btc

Example output of the code above would be:

Example output would be like this

You can find more information regarding fontawesome bitcoin symbol documentation here.

Correct answer by Besir Kurtulmus on February 18, 2021

Here is the unicode for '₿'. paste in any symbol you want the code for. Then hold CTRL+Shift & press 'u' followed by the code it gives. ₿ is 20bf.

Answered by jastako on February 18, 2021

I got the common Bitcoin symbol (B with two lines) approved for addition to Unicode as U+20BF last year. It will hopefully become part of the next Unicode standard in June and then it can be used in text. The character (₿) is already supported by iOS and macOS.

Answered by Ken Shirriff on February 18, 2021

I've made a custom font with Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin symbols. There's a download link in .otf format in this bitcointalk thread. (It's labeled "Download.")

If this font file doesn't include a cryptocurrency symbol that you need, I'm willing to add it.

Answered by Arshid KK on February 18, 2021

Update in 2020: The Unicode 10.0 release included the Bitcoin symbol ₿ as U+20BF. For your computer to show the symbol in text, you may need to install a font that includes it. For Linux, one such font is GNU Unifont Glyphs.


To my knowledge there doesn't yet exist a single symbol font representation of the B with two vertical lines, although it seems to be possible to compose it by combining a B and a double vertical stroke overlay: B⃦. However, this doesn't display properly for me.

Some people have been using ฿ instead, however, this is actually the symbol for another currency, the Thai Baht. There has also been some discussion that a B with two vertical lines doesn't distinguish well enough from the Baht symbol.

One could also see Ƀ being used, but its usage doesn't seem to be widespread.

On Bitcoin.it one can find a comprehensive wikipage about the Bitcoin-Symbol. Unfortunately, it has not been updated since August 2013.

Until a proper unicode symbol is introduced, the best option for a disambiguous textual representations for Bitcoin might be one of either of the following.

Answered by Murch on February 18, 2021

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