Unicode Character "￥" (U+FFE5)

The character ￥ (Fullwidth Yen Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FFE5. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 Fullwidth Yen Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+FFE5
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
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
Decomposition mapping

U+FFE5 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ￥
HTML (hex) ￥
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BF%A5
CSS \00FFE5
JavaScript, JSON \uFFE5
C, C++, Java \uFFE5
Python \uFFE5
Rust \u{FFE5}
Ruby \uFFE5

How to type "￥"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F E 5. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F E 5. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBF 0xA5
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFFE5
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FFE5

References