DOLLAR SIGN

Codepoint

U+0024

Literal Character

$

Name

DOLLAR SIGN

Sketch

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Aliases

milréis, escudo

Control Character

no

Block

Basic Latin

Subblock

ASCII punctuation and symbols

UTF-8 byte encoding

24

UTF-16 byte encoding

00 24 (big endian)

HTML Entity

-

LaTeX expression

\$

Perl string literal

\x{24}

Comments

• used for many peso currencies in Latin America and elsewhere
• glyph may have one or two vertical bars
• other currency symbol characters start at 20A0

See Also

U+00A2: cent sign
U+00A4: currency sign
U+20B1: peso sign
U+1F4B2: heavy dollar sign

Wikipedia

Dollar sign (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
﹩	SMALL DOLLAR SIGN	<small> DOLLAR SIGN (U+0024)
＄	FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SIGN	<wide> DOLLAR SIGN (U+0024)