U+00A5 Yen Sign
U+00A5 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Currency Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as yuan sign (renminbi).
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it is written as end of a European number, e.g., a currency symbol, from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+00A5 prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “yen” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: CNY, currency, JPY, yuan.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The yen and yuan sign (¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts. This character resembles a capital letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke. The symbol is usually placed before the value it represents, for example: ¥50, or JP¥50 and CN¥50 when disambiguation is needed. When writing in Japanese and Chinese, the Japanese kanji and Chinese character is written following the amount, for example 50円 in Japan, and 50元 or 50圆 in China.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 165 |
| UTF-8 | C2 A5 |
| UTF-16 | 00 A5 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 A5 |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%A5 |
| HTML hex reference | ¥ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ¥ |
| HTML named entity | ¥ |
| HTML named entity | ¥ |
| alias | yuan sign (renminbi) |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A2 44 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A2 44 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 9D |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | BE |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | BE |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | BE |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | BE |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 9D |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A2 44 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 5C |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 84 36 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 28 4A 5C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 28 4A 5C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 28 4A 5C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 28 4A 5C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | B4 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | B4 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | B4 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | B4 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 5C |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 5C |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 5C |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 5B |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | B2 |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | B2 |
| LATEX | \textyen |
| AGL: Latin-1 | yen |
| AGL: Latin-2 | yen |
| AGL: Latin-3 | yen |
| AGL: Latin-4 | yen |
| AGL: Latin-5 | yen |
| Adobe Glyph List | yen |
| digraph | Ye |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| YEN SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Currency Symbol | |
| Common | |
| European Terminator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Yen Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Yen Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Yen Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Yen Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yen Sign | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Prefix Numeric | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Yen Sign | |
| R |