¥ U+00A5, ¥
YEN SIGN
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[U+00A4]
Latin-1 Supplement ¦
[U+00A6]

Translingual

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Description

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A capital letter Y, crossed by one or two horizontal lines.

Etymology

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Initialism of yen and yuan. The two lines represent the other two letters in the word 'yen'. One of the earliest uses of ¥ can be found in J. Twizell Wawn’s “Japanese Municipal Government With an Account of the Administration of the City of Kobe”, published in 1899. Usage of the sign increased in the early 20th century, primarily in Western English-speaking countries, but has also become commonly used in Japan as well.

Symbol

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¥

  1. The symbol for yen, the currency of Japan.
  2. The symbol for the yuan, the currency of China.

Derived terms

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See also

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Currency signs
  • ¤ – currency wildcard
  • ؋ – afghani
  • ฿ – baht
  • – bitcoin
  • ¢ – cent
  • – colón
  • – cedi
  •   – cifrão
  •   – Emirati dirham
  • $ – dollar
  • – dong
  • ֏ – dram
  • – euro
  • ƒ – florin, guilder, gulden
  • – franc
  • – guarani
  • – hryvnia
  • – kip
  • – lari
  • – Turkish lira
  • – manat
  • – mill
  • – naira
  • – Philippine peso
  • £ or – pound, lira
  • – Iranian rial
  •   – Saudi riyal
  • – riel
  • – ruble
  • – rupee
  • – Indian rupee
  • – new shekel
  • – Kyrgyzstani som
  • – tenge
  • – tugrik, tether
  • – won
  • ¥ – yen, yuan
Language-specific currency signs
  • – Bengali rupee sign
  • – Bengali taka sign
  • – Bengali ana sign
  • – Bengali ganda sign
  • રૂ૰ – Gujarati rupee sign
  • – North Indic rupee sign
  • रू () – Nepali rupee sign
  • රු (ru) – Sinhala rupee sign
  • – Tamil rupee sign
  • 𞱱 – Urdu rupee sign
  • 𞋿 – Wancho rupee sign
  • ރ – rufiyaa (in Dhiveli)
  • – yen (in Japanese)
  • – yuan (in Chinese)
  •  / – yuan (in Chinese)
Formerly used currency signs
  • 𐆚 – Roman as
  • – austral
  • – European Currency Unit
  • – cruzeiro
  • 𐆖 – Roman denarius
  • – drachma
  • – livre tournois
  • – mark
  • – peseta
  • – pfennig
  • 𐆘 – Roman sesterce
  • – spesmilo
  •   – old Israeli shekel