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Yen Sign HTML entity ¥
¥ is the HTML entity for Yen Sign ¥ (U+00A5). Copy the decimal ¥ and hex ¥ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
¥- Legacy form
¥(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00A5
- Unicode name
- YEN SIGN
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Currency symbol (Sc)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ¥Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ¥Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ¥Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\A5";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00A5"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00a5"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{YEN SIGN}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C2%A5Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 A52 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00A51 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The sign for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, which share one code point. Fonts for Chinese and Japanese sometimes draw it with one bar instead of two.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
Browsers also accept the legacy form ¥ without a semicolon, for compatibility with old pages; new HTML should always end the reference with a semicolon.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).