Yen Sign ¥
¥
U+00A5
Symbol Meaning
Yen Sign. Latin-1 Supplement.
The symbol “Yen Sign” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
yuan sign.
| Unicode Name | Yen Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| Entity | ¥ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Latin-1 punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 157(English Keyboard Layout)
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| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 00A5 |
| Simple case change | 00A5 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 A5 | 194 165 | 49829 | 11000010 10100101 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 A5 | 0 165 | 165 | 00000000 10100101 |
| UTF-16LE | A5 00 | 165 0 | 42240 | 10100101 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 A5 | 0 0 0 165 | 165 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10100101 |
| UTF-32LE | A5 00 00 00 | 165 0 0 0 | 2768240640 | 10100101 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
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