U00A5

U+00A5, commonly rendered as the yen sign ¥, is a Unicode character used as a currency symbol. In Unicode it is officially named YEN SIGN and resides in the Latin-1 Supplement block. The symbol is widely used to denote the Japanese yen and, in some contexts, the Chinese yuan; in those cases the symbol may appear alongside country indicators (for example CN¥).

Encoding and representations: In Unicode, the code point is U+00A5. In UTF-8 it is encoded as two bytes: 0xC2 0xA5. In HTML you can represent it with the entity ¥ or the numeric character reference ¥. Font rendering varies by typeface, with most showing a Y-shaped glyph crossed by two horizontal strokes; some fonts or regional styles may differ slightly in the stroke design.

Usage and context: The yen sign is common on price tags, financial software, and internationalized text to indicate currency. It is distinct from the Japanese kanji 円, which is the formal unit name for yen in Japanese writing. While the same glyph is often used for yen, it is not exclusively tied to Japan and may appear in East Asian typography to denote currencies broadly where appropriate.

See also: other currency symbols in Unicode, such as U+00A3 (POUND SIGN) and U+20A9 (WON SIGN). In software development, U+00A5 is invoked via universal character names or escapes like \u00A5.