¥

¥
yen, yuan
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¥ is a currency sign used by the Chinese yuan (CNY) and the Japanese yen (JPY) currencies. The symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a double stroke. The base unit of both currencies shared the same Chinese character (traditional Chinese:圓; simplified Chinese: 元; Shinjitai: 円) pronounced yuán in Mandarin Chinese and en in Standard Japanese. In China, the character was later abbreviated with the different character 元, which has the same pronunciation in Mandarin (but not in Japanese).

¥9 An example of a price sticker from China.

Code page 932

In the Japanese editions of Microsoft operating systems, the yen sign in code page 932 character encoding has the same byte value as the backslash in ASCII. It is also used wherever a backslash is used, such as the directory separator character and the general escape character, essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look, a peculiarity that stems from JIS X 0201.

Chinese IME

Under Chinese Pinyin IMEs such as those from Microsoft or Sogou.com, typing "$" displays the double-width character "￥", which is different from single-width "¥" used in Japanese IMEs.

Unicode

The Unicode code point is U+00A5 ¥ yen sign (HTML: ¥ ¥).

Additionally, there is a double-width character (￥) at code point U+FFE5 ￥ fullwidth yen sign (HTML: ￥ In the block "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms") for use with wide fonts, especially east Asian fonts.

References

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter Y with diacritics
Ýý	Ỳỳ	Ŷŷ	Y̊ẙ	Ÿÿ	Ỹỹ	Ẏẏ	Ȳȳ	Ỷỷ	Ỵỵ	Ɏɏ	Ƴƴ	ʏ
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