Unicode Character "￥" U+FFE5 Fullwidth Yen Sign
Unicode Version 15.1
￥
Summary
The unicode character "￥" at code point U+FFE5 is Fullwidth Yen Sign. It is a character in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is part of the Common script. The character is a currency symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "￥" is 0xEF 0xBF 0xA5 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0xFFE5.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFE5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Yen Sign |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "¥" U+00A5 Yen Sign |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffe5 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Prefix Numeric |
| East Asian Width | Fullwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "¥" U+00A5 Yen Sign |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "¥" U+00A5 Yen Sign |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |