Yen and yuan sign

¥
yen and yuan sign
In UnicodeU+00A5 ¥ YEN SIGN (¥)
Currency
CurrencyJapanese yen and Chinese yuan
Graphical variants
U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN
Related
See alsoU+5143 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5143 (Yuan)
U+5186 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5186 (Yen)
Different from
Different fromU+04B0 Ұ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER STRAIGHT U WITH STROKE
Category

The yen and yuan sign (¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts. This character resembles a capital letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke. The symbol is usually placed before the value it represents, for example: ¥50, or JP¥50 and CN¥50 when disambiguation is needed.[a] When writing in Japanese and Chinese, the Japanese kanji and Chinese character is written following the amount, for example 50円 in Japan, and 50元 or 50圆 in China.
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