ASCII Character ¥
Yen signThe yen and yuan sign, ¥, is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts. The Unicode code point is U+00A5 ¥ YEN SIGN (¥). Additionally, there is a full width character, ￥, at code point U+FFE5 ￥ FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN[a] for use with wide fonts, especially East Asian fonts. IBM's Code page 437 used code point 9D for the ¥ and this encoding was also used by several other computer systems.
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ASCII Code for ¥
These are the code points for yen sign in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Code page 437 | 157 | 9D |
| ISO-8859-1 | 165 | A5 |
| ISO-8859-8 | 165 | A5 |
| ISO-8859-9 | 165 | A5 |
| Windows-1252 | 165 | A5 |
| Windows-1253 | 165 | A5 |
| Windows-1254 | 165 | A5 |
| Windows-1255 | 165 | A5 |
| Windows-1256 | 165 | A5 |
| Windows-1258 | 165 | A5 |
Unicode for ¥
The character for yen sign is mapped in Unicode as U+00A5| Unicode | U+00A5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 165 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u00a5 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xA5 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001010100101 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 1100001010100101 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x00A5 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000A5 | |
HTML Entities for ¥
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the yen sign in HTML| HTML Number | ¥ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ¥ | |
| HTML Entity | ¥ | |
Related characters
| Symbol | Name |
|---|---|
| $ | Dollar |
| ¢ | Cent sign |
| £ | Pound sign |
| ¤ | Currency sign |
| € | Euro sign |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %C2%A5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =C2=A5 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00A5" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \00A5 | |
| JavaScript | "\u00A5" | |
| Perl | \x{00A5} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00A5" | |
| Python 3 | \u00A5 | |
| Ruby | \u{00A5} |