The Cruzeiro sign (₢) is a typographical abbreviation or ligature consisting of a capital Latin letter "C" with a nested lower-case letter "r", connected in a single glyph. It occasionally replaced the "Cr" part of the currency symbol for the first Brazilian cruzeiro, created in 1942, whose official symbol was "Cr $" (two separate letters, a space, and a single-stroke dollar sign). It could also be used for other currencies called "cruzeiro".[1]
Some typewriters and cash registers produced for the Brazilian market had『₢』keys,[2][1] and it was available in some typefaces.[citation needed]
The symbol was included in the first iteration of the Unicode standard (name "CRUZEIRO SIGN", code point U+20A2).