Unicode Character "¥" (U+00A5)

The character ¥ (Yen Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00A5. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ¥.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Yen Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+00A5
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class European Terminator (ET)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Currency Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00A5 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¥
HTML (hex) ¥
HTML (named) ¥
URL Escape Code %C2%A5
CSS \0000A5
JavaScript, JSON \u00A5
C, C++, Java \u00A5
Python \u00A5
Rust \u{00A5}
Ruby \u00A5

How to type "¥"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A 5. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A 5. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ¥
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ¥
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ¥
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xA5
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00A5
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000A5

Characters based on "¥" (U+00A5)

References