¥

Technical information

Symbol	¥
Name	Yen sign
Unicode number	U+00A5
Category	Presently Currency Symbols Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character ¥, or U+00A5, is known as the "Yen Sign". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Symbol, Currency" category. Visually, it resembles the Latin capital letter 'Y' with two horizontal lines through the center. The Yen Sign is used as the symbol for the currency of Japan, the yen. In financial contexts, it precedes numerical amounts to indicate a value in yen. It is an integral part of Japanese writing systems, representing a major global currency. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Yen Sign can depend on its context.

Encoding

HTML Entity	¥
HTML Entity (hex)	¥
HTML Entity (named)	¥
URL Escape Code	%C2%A5
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xA5
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010100101
UTF-16	0x00A5
UTF-32	0x000000A5

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00A5"
CSS Code	\00A5
JavaScript	"\u00A5"
Perl	\x{00A5}
Python 2	u"\u00A5"
Python 3	\u00A5
Ruby	\u{00A5}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¥ in sentence and in bold like this ¥ and in italic like this ¥.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#165;</span>

span {
    content: "\00A5";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

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Ubuntu

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