Unicode Character "¥" U+00A5 Yen Sign
Unicode Version 15.1
¥
Summary
The unicode character "¥" at code point U+00A5 is Yen Sign. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is a currency symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "¥" is 0xC2 0xA5 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00A5.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00A5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Yen Sign |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ¥ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ¥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ¥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00a5 |