Yen Sign
Part of Currency
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0165 on the numeric keypad to insert yen sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0165
- HTML entity
- ¥
- Unicode
- U+00A5
About this symbol
The yen sign is a capital Y with one or two crossbars. It stands for both the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, whose names come from the same Chinese word, meaning round, as in a round coin. In Japan itself the price is usually written with the character 円.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- YEN SIGN
- Also called
- Yuan sign (renminbi)
- Type
- Currency symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- 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
- Related
- Ɏ Latin Capital Letter Y With Stroke U+024EҰ Cyrillic Capital Letter Straight U With Stroke U+04B0元 U+5143円 U+5186
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