$

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also $
$ U+0024, $
DOLLAR SIGN
#
[U+0023]
Basic Latin %
[U+0025]
💲 U+1F4B2, 💲
HEAVY DOLLAR SIGN
💱
[U+1F4B1]
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 💳
[U+1F4B3]
U+FE69, ﹩
SMALL DOLLAR SIGN

[U+FE68]
Small Form Variants
[U+FE6A]
U+FF04, $
FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SIGN

[U+FF03]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF05]

Translingual edit

 
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Alternative forms edit

Description edit

An S-shape with one (or, in some typefaces, two) vertical line crossing it completely. See   for the usage with explicitly two lines.

Etymology edit

$ appears to have evolved ca 1775 in the United States from a common abbreviation for pesos, also known as piastres or pieces of eight, a P/raised-S ligature PS that passed through a stage resembling ֆ.[1] It was used in the US before the adoption of the dollar in 1785.[2]

(computing): This sense is the result of homophony between English cache and cash, dollars being a form of cash.

Noun edit

$

  1. money
  2. (used everywhere except in the Philippines) peso
  3. dollar
    • 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
      Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million[sic] $$$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
  4. escudo
  5. (computing) cache
    • 2010 Fall, U Penn CIS501 lecture notes[2]:
      How to provide additional D$ bandwidth?

Letter edit

$

  1. A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or (perceived) greedy business practices.
    "Micro$oft Window$"
    • 2015, "Pixtopia", season 1, episode 6b of Star vs. the Forces of Evil
      [the text below is written on-screen in large letters, once Marco reveals his "emergency cash stash"]
      Marco'$ emergency ca$h $ta$h

Symbol edit

$

  1. The symbol for the dollar and peso.
  2. The unofficial symbol for the escudo.
  3. (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.

Usage notes edit

When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies in English, despite being pronounced second. For example, “$1” is read as “one dollar”, not “dollar one” unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: “1 $”, “2,50 $”.

When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. The official symbol for the escudo is   (with two bars), but that form is unified with the single-bar form in Unicode. A single-bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

See also edit

Currency signs

Formerly used currency signs


References edit

  1. ^ A history of mathematical notations, Florian Cajori, 1993
  2. ^ “US Bureau of Engraving and Printing”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], accessed 22 May 2009, archived from the original on 2007-09-28