Yen and yuan sign
| ¥ | |
|---|---|
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. When writing in Japanese and Chinese, the Japanese kanji or Chinese character is written following the amount, for example 50円 in Japan, and 50元 or 50圆 in China.