¥ is a currency sign used for the following currencies:
- Japanese yen (JPY)
- Chinese yuan (CNY) (less common in English)
The base unit of the two currencies above shared the same Chinese character meaning a circle (圓), pronounced yuan in Mandarin Chinese and en in Standard Japanese. Today, Japan uses the simplified character 円, while China uses the homophonous character 元, which actually means unit.
The symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a double stroke or, also commonly in Mainland China, with a single horizontal stroke. The actual number of strokes varies from font to font.
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Computing
In the Japanese editions of operating systems including Windows, the yen sign in code page 932 character encoding has the same byte value as the backslash in ASCII. It is also used wherever a backslash is used, such as the directory separator character and the general escape character,[1] essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look, a peculiarity that stems from JIS X 0201.
Although this symbol is unavailable on many keyboards, it can be typed in Windows by holding the ALT key down and typing the numbers 0165 on the right side of the keyboard and releasing the ALT key. It can also be typed by holding down the ALT key, and typing the numbers 157 on the right side of the keyboard, and releasing the ALT key, or by holding down the CTL key and typing the numbers 02213 on the right side of the keyboard and then releasing the ALT key.
On Mac OS X using English, the ¥ sign can be entered by holding down the Option key and typing the letter Y.
In Chinese input method such as Microsoft Pinyin IME or Sogou Pinyin IME, it could be inputted by just typing "$". It shows up as a double-width character "￥".
Unicode
The Unicode code point for ¥ is U+00A5; it can be represented in non-unicode HTML as ¥.
Additionally, there is a full-width sign: ￥ at code point U+FFE5 for use with wide fonts (esp. east Asian fonts).
References
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Letter Y with diacritics
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