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Yen sign - wikipedia Yen sign Jump to : navigation , search Look up ¥ in Wiktionary , the free dictionary . <Th_colspan="2"> ¥ ¥ <Td_colspan="2"> yen , yuan <Td_colspan="2"> <Th_colspan="2"> Punctuation apostrophe ' ' brackets ( ) ( ) ( ) ⟨ ⟩ colon : comma , ، 、 dash ‒ -- -- ― ellipsis ... ... ⋯ ᠁ ฯ exclamation mark ! full stop , period . guillemets `` '' `` '' hyphen ‐ hyphen - minus - question mark ? quotation marks ' ' `` '' ' ' `` '' semicolon ; slash , stroke , solidus / ⁄ <Td_colspan="2"> <Th_colspan="2"> Word dividers interpunct space <Td_colspan="2"> <Th_colspan="2"> General typography ampersand & asterisk * at sign @ backslash \ bullet caret dagger † ‡ degree ° ditto mark '' inverted exclamation mark ¡ inverted question mark ¿ komejirushi , kome , reference mark ※ number sign , pound , hash , octothorpe # numero sign No obelus ÷ multiplication sign × ordinal indicator o a percent , per mil % ‰ plus and minus + − equals sign = basis point ‱ pilcrow ¶ prime ′ '' ′′′ section sign § tilde ~ underscore , understrike _ vertical bar , pipe , broken bar ‖ ¦ <Td_colspan="2"> <Th_colspan="2"> Intellectual property copyright © sound - recording copyright ℗ registered trademark ® service mark SM trademark TM <Td_colspan="2"> <Th_colspan="2"> Currency currency sign ¤ currency symbols ؋ ​ ₳ ​ ฿ ​ ₿ ​ ₵ ​ ¢ ​ ₡ ​ ₢ ​ $ ​ ₫ ​ ₯ ​ ֏ ​ ₠ ​ € ​ ƒ ​ ₣ ​ ₲ ​ ₴ ​ ₭ ​ ₺ ​ ₾ ​ ₼ ​ M ​ ₥ ​ ₦ ​ ₧ ​ ₱ ​ ₰ ​ £ ​ 元 圆 圓 ​ ریال ​ ៛ ​ ₽ ​ ₹ Rs ​ ₪ ​ ৳ ​ ₸ ​ ₮ ​ ₩ ​ ¥ 円 <Td_colspan="2"> <Th_colspan="2"> Uncommon typography asterism ⁂ hedera ❧ index , fist ☞ interrobang ‽ irony punctuation ⸮ lozenge ◊ tie ⁀ <Th_colspan="2"> Related <Td_colspan="2"> Diacritics Logic symbols Whitespace characters <Th_colspan="2"> In other scripts <Td_colspan="2"> Chinese Hebrew Japanese Korean <Td_colspan="2"> Portal Book <Td_colspan="2"> The yen sign ( ¥ ) or the yuan sign ( ¥ ) is a currency sign used by the Chinese yuan ( CNY ) and the Japanese yen ( JPY ) currencies . This monetary symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke . The base unit of both currencies shared the same Chinese character / Kanji ( traditional Chinese : 圓 ; simplified Chinese : 圆 ; Japanese Shinjitai : 円 ) that means `` circle '' . It is pronounced yuán in Chinese and en in Japanese . In mainland China , the Chinese character is more frequently written in everyday situations using the simpler character 元 , which has the same pronunciation as the formal financial character 圓 in Standard Chinese ( but not in Japanese and in some Chinese varieties ) . The symbol is usually placed before the value it represents , for example RMB ¥ 20 in China , and JP ¥ 1500 in Japan . However it is also more commonly represented as 20 元 in China and 1500 円 in Japan . ¥ 9 An example of a price sticker from China Contents ( hide ) 1 Shift JIS and Code page 932 2 Chinese IME 3 Unicode 4 Notes 5 References Shift JIS and code page 932 ( edit ) In JIS X 0201 , of which Shift JIS is an extension , the yen sign has the same byte value ( 0x5C ) as the backslash in ASCII . Japanese - language locales of Microsoft operating systems use the code page 932 character encoding , which is a variant of Shift JIS . Hence , 0x5C is displayed as a yen sign in Japanese - locale fonts on Windows . It is nonetheless used wherever a backslash is used , such as the directory separator character ( for example , in C : ¥ ) and as the general escape character ( ¥ n ) . It is mapped onto the Unicode U + 005C REVERSE SOLIDUS ( i.e. backslash ) , while Unicode U + 00A5 YEN SIGN is given a one - way `` best fit '' mapping to 0x5C in code page 932 , and 0x5C is displayed as a backslash in Microsoft 's documentation for code page 932 , essentially making it a backslash given the appearance of a yen sign by localized fonts . Chinese ime ( edit ) Under Chinese Pinyin IMEs such as those from Microsoft or Sogou.com , typing `` $ '' displays the full - width character `` ¥ '' , which is different from half - width `` ¥ '' used in Japanese IMEs . Unicode ( edit ) The Unicode code point is U + 00A5 ¥ Yen sign ( HTML & # 165 ; &yen ; ) . Additionally , there is a full - width character ( ¥ ) at code point U + FFE5 ¥ Fullwidth Yen sign ( HTML & # 65509 ; In the block `` Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms '' ) for use with wide fonts , especially East Asian fonts . Notes ( edit ) Jump up ^ Such as dialects of Wu , Min Nan , Hakka and Vietnamese , see the entries for the characters 圓 and 元 in Wiktionary . References ( edit ) Jump up ^ Basic accounting rules , People 's Bank of China 第 二 十 六 条 凭证 、 账簿 的 各 种 代用 符号 为 : 人民币 `` 元 '' 符号 为 `` ¥ '' -- Article 26 receipt , the symbol of Yuan is ¥. ( in Chinese ) ^ Jump up to : Kaplan , Michael S. ( 2005 - 09 - 17 ) . `` When is a backslash not a backslash ? '' . Jump up ^ `` CP932. TXT '' . Unicode Consortium . Jump up ^ `` Lead byte NULL -- Code page 932 '' . Microsoft . <Th_colspan="2"> ( hide ) Latin script <Td_colspan="2"> History Spread Romanization Roman numerals Alphabets ( list ) Classical Latin alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet phonetic alphabets International Phonetic Alphabet X-SAMPA Spelling alphabet Letters ( list ) <Th_colspan="26"> Letters of 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 <Th_colspan="26"> Letter Y with diacritics Ýý Ỳỳ Ŷŷ Y̊ẙ Ÿÿ Ỹỹ Ẏẏ Ȳȳ Ỷỷ Ỵỵ Ɏɏ Ƴƴ Ỿỿ <Th_colspan="26"> Letters using bar or stroke sign ( ◌ ̵ , ◌ ̶ , ◌ ̷ , ◌ ̸ ) Ⱥⱥ Ƀƀ Ꞓꞓ Ȼȼ Đđ Ɖɖ Ɇɇ ꬳ Ꞙꞙ Ꞡꞡ Ǥǥ Ħħ Ɨ ɨ Ɉɉ Ꝃꝃ Ꞣꞣ Ꝁꝁ Ꝅꝅ Ƚƚ Ⱡⱡ Ꝉꝉ Łłᴌ Ꞥꞥ Ɵɵ Ꝋꝋ Øø Ᵽᵽ Ꝑꝑ Ꝙꝙ Ꝗꝗ Ꞧꞧ Ɍɍ Ꞩꞩ Ⱦⱦ Ŧŧ Ʉʉ Ꝟꝟ Ɏɏ Ƶƶ Multigraphs Digraphs ch cz dž dz gh ij ll ly nh ny sh sz th Trigraphs dzs eau Tetragraphs ough Pentagraphs tzsch Keyboard layouts ( list ) QWERTY QWERTZ AZERTY Standards ISO / IEC 646 Unicode Western Latin character sets Lists precomposed Latin characters in Unicode letters used in mathematics <Td_colspan="2"> Diacritics Palaeography <Th_colspan="2"> Currency symbols ( ¤ ) Circulating ؋ ฿ ₵ ₡ ¢ $ ₫ ֏ € ƒ ₲ ₴ ₾ ₭ ₺ ₼ ₦ ₱ £ 元 圆 圓 ریال ៛ ₽ ₹ ૱ ௹ ꠸ Rs ₪ ৳ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ 円 Historic ₳ ₢ ₰ ₯ ₠ ₣ ₤ ₶ RM M ₧ 𐆚 𐆖 𐆙 𐆗 𐆘 Uncirculated ₿ ₥ ₷ Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yen_sign&oldid=815923434 '' Categories : Currency symbols Japanese yen Renminbi Hidden categories : Articles with Chinese - language external links All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from December 2017 Articles containing Chinese - language text Articles containing Japanese - language text Articles containing traditional Chinese - language text Articles containing simplified Chinese - language text Talk Contents About Wikipedia বাংলা Deutsch Español فارسی Français 한국어 Հայերեն Italiano Қазақша 日本 語 Norsk ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Русский Саха тыла Shqip 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 18 December 2017 , at 02 : 39 . 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