YEN SIGN

Codepoint
U+00A5
Literal Character
¥
Name
YEN SIGN
Sketch
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Aliases
yuan sign (renminbi)
Control Character
no
Subblock
Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding
c2 a5
UTF-16 byte encoding
00 a5 (big endian)
HTML Entity
¥
Perl string literal
\x{A5}
Comments
  • glyph may have one or two crossbars, but the official symbol in Japan and China has two
  • in native context, specific ideographs may be used for units of these currencies
See Also
U+024E: latin capital letter y with stroke
U+04B0: cyrillic capital letter straight u with stroke
U+5143: U+5143
U+5186: U+5186
Used In
Name Composed Of
FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN <wide>
YEN SIGN (U+00A5)