¥ is a currency sign used by the Japanese yen (JPY) and the Chinese yuan (CNY) currencies. The symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a double stroke. The base unit of both currencies shared the same Chinese character (traditional Chinese:圓; simplified Chinese:圆; Shinjitai:円) pronounced yuán in Mandarin Chinese and en in Standard Japanese. In China, the character was later abbreviated with the different character 元, which has the same pronunciation in Mandarin (but not in Japanese). [1]
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In the Japanese editions of Microsoft operating systems, 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,[2] essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look, a peculiarity that stems from JIS X 0201.
Under Chinese Pinyin IMEs such as those from Microsoft or Sogou.com, typing "$" displays the double-width character "￥", which is different from single-width "¥" used in Japanese IMEs.
The Unicode code point is U+00A5 ¥ yen sign (165decimal, HTML: ¥ ¥).
Additionally, there is a double-width character (￥) at code point U+FFE5 ￥ fullwidth yen sign (65509decimal, In the block "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms") for use with wide fonts (esp. east Asian fonts).
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