How to Type Euro Symbol and Special Characters on Chromebook

Share

Do you want to know how to type the Euro symbol and special characters on Chromebook? Then here is a detailed guide that will help you to do so. Chromebooks make great workhorses. While composing any draft online or offline you may require to use the Euro symbol or other special characters in your content piece.

Now, the primary physical keyboard of the Chromebook doesn’t come with keys for special characters or the euro symbol. What you have to do is combine hotkeys from the existing keys of the keyboard and generate the special characters. While Windows OS has a provision for special characters repository, ChromeOS lacks such a facility.

 euro symbol on chromebook

Type Euro Symbol and Special Characters on Chromebook

Here are the various key combinations you must use to generate the Euro symbol and other special characters on your Chromebook.

          Key Combinations Resulting Special Character
                   AltGr + 5 € (euro)
                   AltGr + e é (aigu)
                   Backtick + e è (grave)
                   Backtick + a à
                   AltGr + a á
                   AltGr + c ç (cedille)
                   Shift + 6 â (circonflexe)
                   AltGr + q ä
                   AltGr + r ë
                   AltGr + j ï
                   AltGr + p ö
                   AltGr + y ü
                 AltGr + n ñ
                 AltGr +? ¿
                 Shift + AltGr + 1 ¡

If you are confused regarding what is a backtick key on the Chromebook, then it is the one you will find at the left-most end of the numeric keys. Usually, it is denoted as(`)and it is placed along with the tilde ~ key.

Some More Special Characters That You Can Create on Chromebook

Using the Alt key and some other keys on the Chromebook keyboard you can create these special characters.

                     Alt +1                    ¹
                     Alt +2                    ²
                     Alt +3                    ³
                     Alt +4                   ¤
                     Alt +5                  € (euro symbol)
                     Alt +6                   ⁶
                     Alt +-                   ¥
                     Alt +=                  ×

 

Also Read | How to Sign PDFs on Chromebook without Using Third-Party Apps

List of Some More Special Characters 

Combining the Shift and Alt keys along with some other keys you can generate various symbols and special characters in the Chromebook. Here are the hotkey combinations for them.

                 Shift+Alt+Z                       Æ
                 Shift+Alt+X                      Œ
                 Shift+Alt+C                       ©
                 Shift+Alt+V                       ®
                 Shift+Alt+N                        Ñ
                 Shift + Alt + <                        Ç
                 Shift + Alt + q                        ä
                 Shift + Alt + w                         å
                 Shift + Alt + e                         é
                 Shift + Alt + r                         ë
                 Shift + Alt + t                         þ
                 Shift + Alt + y                         ü
                 Shift + Alt + [                        «
                 Shift + Alt + ]                        »
                 Shift + Alt + \                       ¬

 

Conclusion

While you may not require to use the special symbols every time, it is good to know how to type the euro symbol and special characters on Chromebook. Instead of wasting time googling around the symbol and copy-pasting it, use the hotkeys and generate your choice of special character in no time.

Swayam Prakash
Swayam Prakash
Swayam is a professional tech content creator with around 5000+ blog posts under his name on prominent tech websites. With knowledge of SEO & Digital Marketing, he creates consumer-tech-based content on all-things Android, iOS, and Windows OS.

Read more

Local News

Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro launched with Tensor G4 SoC, pricing starts from $799

Google launches its flagship Pixel 9 series smartphones today. The Google Pixel 9 Series includes the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro...

Google TV Streamer vs Apple TV, which is better?

Recently, the search engine giant launched Google TV Streamer 4K. It replaces the decade old Chromecast with Google TV. Google TV Streamer 4K will...

Google TV Streamer 4K launched with $99.99 price tag, replaces Chromecast

Google today launched its latest streaming device called "Google TV Streamer". Now, the company officially replaces the Chromecast with Google TV with the new...

All new Table-Top streaming device reportedly called “Google TV Streamer”, Launch expected soon

Since late last year, there are some leaks and rumors about the Google's new streaming device. Till now Google's only streaming device is Chromecast....