| ¥ | |
|---|---|
yen and yuan sign | |
| In Unicode | U+00A5 ¥ YEN SIGN (¥) |
| Currency | |
| Currency | Japanese yen and Chinese yuan |
| Graphical variants | |
| ￥ | |
| U+FFE5 ￥ FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN | |
| Related | |
| See also | U+5143 元 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5143 (Yuan) U+5186 円 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5186 (Yen) |
| Different from | |
| Different from | U+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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