¥

U+00A5 – Yen Sign

Find more about the U+00A5 Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.

CodepointU+00A5
NameYen Sign
Aliasyuan sign (renminbi)
CategoryCurrency Symbol (Sc)
ScriptCommon
BlockLatin-1 Supplement
PlaneBasic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
VersionUnicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Numeric Character Reference¥
Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference¥
HTML Named Character Reference
(HTML Named Entity)
¥
CSS Character Reference
(CSS Escape Code)
\00A5
Links
Plain
https://everychar.com/code/U+00A5
Markdown
[U+00A5](https://everychar.com/code/U+00A5)
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.