¥ is the Unicode character YEN SIGN, code point U+00A5 (decimal 165) in the Latin-1 Supplement block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ¥, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C2 A5.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00A5 |
| Decimal | 165 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 A5 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 00A5 |
| UTF-32 | 000000A5 |
| HTML decimal | ¥ |
| HTML hex | ¥ |
| HTML named | ¥ |
| CSS | \A5 |
| JavaScript | \u00A5 |
| JSON | \u00A5 |
| Python | \u00A5 |
| Python by name | \N{YEN SIGN} |
| Java, C# | \u00A5 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{A5} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u00A5 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C2%A5 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | YEN SIGN |
| Code point | U+00A5 (decimal 165) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF) |
| General category | Sc: Currency symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ET: European number terminator |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement
- U+009D Operating System Command
- U+009E Privacy Message
- U+009F Application Program Command
- U+00A0 No-Break Space
- ¡ U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
- ¢ U+00A2 Cent Sign
- £ U+00A3 Pound Sign
- ¤ U+00A4 Currency Sign
- ¦ U+00A6 Broken Bar
- § U+00A7 Section Sign
- ¨ U+00A8 Diaeresis
- © U+00A9 Copyright
- ª U+00AA Feminine Ordinal Indicator
- « U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
- ¬ U+00AC Not Sign
- U+00AD Soft Hyphen
All 128 characters: Latin-1 Supplement.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ¥?
- Use the named entity ¥, or ¥ (decimal) or ¥ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+00A5?
- C2 A5 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C2%A5.
- How do I write U+00A5 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u00A5. Python: \u00A5.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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