Currency symbol

Symbols of the four most widely held reserve currencies

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A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used as a shorthand for a currency's name, especially in reference to amounts of money.

Usage[]

When writing currency amounts, the location of the symbol varies by language. Many currencies in English-speaking countries and Latin America (except Haiti and Suriname) place it before the amount (e.g., R$50,00). The Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) places its symbol in the decimal separator position (e.g. 20$00).^[1] In many European countries such as France, the symbol is usually placed after the amount (e.g. 20,50 €).

The decimal separator also follows local countries' standards. For instance, the United Kingdom often uses an interpunct as the decimal point on handwritten price stickers (e.g., £5·52), but a full stop (e.g., £5.52) in print. Commas (e.g. €5,00) or decimal points (e.g. $50.00) are common separators used in other countries.

Design[]

Official dimensions of the euro sign

Dimensions of the symbol in a selection of type faces

Older currency symbols have evolved slowly, often from previous currencies. The modern dollar and peso symbols originated from the mark employed to denote the Spanish dollar,^[2] whereas the pound and lira symbols evolved from the letter L (written until the seventeenth century in blackletter type as ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}}$) standing for libra, a Roman pound of silver.^[3]

Newly invented currencies and currencies adopting new symbols have symbolism meaningful to their adopter. For example, the euro sign is based on ϵ, an archaic form of the greek epsilon, to represent Europe;^[4] the Indian rupee sign ₹ is a blend of the Latin letter 'R' with the Devanagari letter 'र' (ra);^[5] and the Russian Ruble sign is based on Р (the Cyrillic capital letter 'er').^[6]

There are also other considerations, such as how the symbol is rendered on computers and typesetting. For a new symbol to be used, its glyphs needs to be added to computer fonts and keyboard mappings already in widespread use, keyboard layouts need to be altered or shortcuts added to type the new symbol. For example, the European Commission was criticized for not considering how the euro sign would need to be customized to work in different fonts.^[7] The original design was also exceptionally wide. These two factors have led to most type foundries designing customized versions that match the 'look and feel' of the font to which it is to be added, often with reduced width.

List of currency symbols currently in use[]

Some of these symbols are rare because the currency sub-unit that they represent is obsolete or obsolescent due to currency inflation.

Symbol	Uses	Notes	Unicode
؋	Afghan afghani		U+060B ؋ AFGHANI SIGN
Ar	Malagasy ariary[8]
฿	Thai baht		U+0E3F ฿ THAI CURRENCY SYMBOL BAHT
B/.	Panamanian balboa
Br	Ethiopian birr; Belarusian ruble
₿	Bitcoin	Cryptocurrency	U+20BF ₿ BITCOIN SIGN
Bs.S.	Venezuelan bolívar variant	Usually Bs.
GH₵	Ghana cedi		U+20B5 cedi sign
¢	cent, centavo, etc.	A centesimal subdivision of currencies such as the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso. (See article.) See also c	U+00A2 cent sign
c	cent etc. variant	Preferred by currencies such as the Australian, New Zealand, South African cents; the West African CFA centime; and the divisions of the euro. See also ¢
Ch.	Bhutanese chhertum	A centesimal division of the ngultrum.
₡	Costa Rican colón, symbol was also used for the Salvadoran colón.	The Salvadoran colón was discontinued in 2001 and it was replaced by the US dollar.	U+20A1 ₡ COLON SIGN
Ξ	Ethereum[9][better source needed]	Cryptocurrency	U+039E Ξ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI
C$	Nicaraguan córdoba
D	Gambian dalasi
ден	Macedonian denar	Latin form: DEN
دج	Algerian dinar	Latin form: DA
.د.ب	Bahraini dinar	Latin form: BD
د.ع	Iraqi dinar	Latin form: I.Q.D.
JD	Jordanian dinar
د.ك	Kuwaiti dinar	Latin form: K.D.
ل.د	Libyan dinar	Latin form: LD
дин	Serbian dinar	Latin form: din.
د.ت	Tunisian dinar	Latin form: DT
د.م.	Moroccan dirham	Latin forms: DH; Dhs
د.إ	United Arab Emirates dirham	Latin forms DH; Dhs
Db	São Tomé and Príncipe dobra
$	Australian (A$), Bahamian (B$), Barbadian (Bds$), Belizean (BZ$), Bermudian (BD$), Brunei (B$), Canadian (CA$), Cayman Islands (CI$), East Caribbean (EC$), Fiji (FJ$), Guyanese (G$),[10] Hong Kong (HK$/元/圓), Jamaican (J$), Kiribati, Liberian (L$), Namibian (N$), New Zealand (NZ$), Singaporean (S$), Solomon Islands (SI$), Surinamese (SRD), New Taiwan (NT$/元/圓), Trinidad and Tobago (TT$), Tuvaluan (TV$), and United States (US$), dollars Argentine, Chilean (CLP$), Colombian (COP$), Cuban ($MN), Cuban convertible (CUC$), Dominican (RD$), Mexican (Mex$), and Uruguayan ($U) pesos	May appear with either one or two bars (), which share the same Unicode space. Kiribati's and Tuvalu's dollars are pegged 1:1 to the Australian dollar. Brunei's dollar is pegged 1:1 to the Singaporean dollar. See also C$, MOP$, R$, T$, WS$.	U+0024 $ DOLLAR SIGN
₫	Vietnamese đồng		U+20AB ₫ DONG SIGN
֏	Armenian dram		U+058F ֏ ARMENIAN DRAM SIGN
Esc	Cape Verdean escudo	Also the double-barred dollar sign (cifrão):
€	Euro	In addition to the members of the eurozone, the Vatican, San Marino, Monaco and Andorra have been granted issuing rights for coinage but not banknotes.	U+20AC € EURO SIGN
ƒ	Aruban florin (Afl.)[11] Netherlands Antillean guilder (NAƒ)		U+0192 ƒ LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK
Ft	Hungarian forint
FBu	Burundian franc
FCFA	Central African CFA franc	Pegged 1:1 to West African CFA franc.
CFA	West African CFA franc	Pegged 1:1 to Central African CFA franc.
F Fr, fr	Comorian (CF), Congolese (CF, FC), Djiboutian (Fdj/DF), Guinean (FG/GFr), and Swiss (SFr) francs	Also Fr and possibly ₣.[citation needed] (The F with a double bar, although represented in Unicode as 'U+20A3 ₣ FRENCH FRANC SIGN', was proposed but never adopted as the symbol of the former French franc.[12][13] In some fonts, this code point is represented by Fr combined in a typographic ligature).
FRw	Rwandan franc[14]	Possibly also RF[15] and RFr[16]
G	Haitian gourde
gr	Polish grosz	A centesimal division of the złoty
₲	Paraguayan guaraní	or	U+20B2 ₲ GUARANI SIGN
h	Czech haléř	A centesimal division of the koruna
₴	Ukrainian hryvnia		U+20B4 hrvynia sign
₭	Lao kip	or ₭N.	U+20AD ₭ KIP SIGN
Kč	Czech koruna
kr	Danish krone (DKK); Norwegian krone (NOK); Swedish krona (SEK); Icelandic króna (ISK); Faroese króna	Faroese króna pegged 1:1 to Danish krone, which is in turn pegged to the Euro through the ERM.
kn	Croatian kuna
Kz	Angolan kwanza
K	Myanmar kyat; Papua New Guinean kina; Malawian kwacha; Zambian kwacha
	Georgian lari		U+20BE ₾ LARI SIGN
L	Albanian lek; Romanian leu; Moldovan leu; Honduran lempira	Also used as the currency symbol for the Lesotho one-loti and the Swazi one-lilangeni note. Also historically used for as a pound sign
Le	Sierra Leonean leone
лв.	Bulgarian lev
E	Swazi lilangeni	Symbol based on the plural form "emalangeni" However the one-lilageni note employs the currency symbol L
lp	Croatian lipa	A centesimal division of the kuna.
₺	Turkish lira		U+20BA ₺ TURKISH LIRA SIGN
M	Lesotho loti	Symbol based on plural form "maloti". The one-loti note employs the symbol L
₼	Azerbaijani manat	Also m. or man.	U+20BC ₼ MANAT SIGN
KM	Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark	Cyrillic form: КМ
MT	Mozambican metical[17]	Also MTn
₥	Mill, mil, etc.	An uncommon millesimal subdivision of US dollars and other currencies. (See mill (currency).)	U+20A5 ₥ MILL SIGN
Nfk	Eritrean nakfa	Also Nfa[18]
₦	Nigerian naira		U+20A6 ₦ NAIRA SIGN
Nu.	Bhutanese ngultrum
UM	Mauritanian ouguiya[19]
T$	Tongan paʻanga
MOP$	Macanese pataca	Also 圓 and 元
p	Alderney, British, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Manx and Saint Helena pennies	The penny is now a centesimal division of the pound.
₱	Philippine peso	Also ₱, PHP, and P.	U+20B1 ₱ PESO SIGN
pt	Egyptian piastre	A centesimal division of the Egyptian pound. A local symbol used in handwriting and occasionally print is represented by a stylised form of "Arabic Letter Dotless Qaf" ٯ placed above the digits. Due to inflation and lack of computer support its use is dwindling.
£	Egyptian (£E), Sterling (and the pegged currencies of Alderney, the Falklands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man and Saint Helena), South Sudanese (SS£), Sudanese (£SD) and Syrian (£S) pounds.	Can be substituted with ₤, L., Ł and Ⱡ EGP also abbreviated "L.E." (French: livre égyptienne), and, in Arabic, ج.م. A local symbol used in handwriting and occasionally print is represented by a stylised dotless form of "Arabic Letter Jeem" ح placed above the digits, (visually similar to حــ ). Due to lack of computer support its use is dwindling.	U+00A3 £ POUND SIGN
LL	Lebanese pound
P	Botswana pula
Q	Guatemalan quetzal
q	Albanian qindarkë	A centesimal division of the lek.
R	South African rand	Also sometimes Russian etc. rubles.
R$	Brazilian real	The $ is sometimes written with a double bar like a double-barred dollar sign:
﷼	Iranian rial		U+FDFC ﷼ RIAL SIGN
ر.ع.	Omani rial
ر.ق	Qatari riyal	Latin: QR
ر.س	Saudi riyal	Latin: SR. Also ﷼
ر.ي	Yemeni rial
៛	Cambodian riel		U+17DB ៛ KHMER CURRENCY SYMBOL RIEL
RM	Malaysian ringgit
	Pridnestrovie ruble
₽	Russian ruble		U+20BD ₽ RUBLE SIGN
Rf.	Maldivian rufiyaa	Also MRf., MVR and .ރ
₹	Indian rupee	Previously ₨ or Re (before 15 July 2010).	U+20B9 ₹ INDIAN RUPEE SIGN
₨	Mauritian,[20] Nepalese[21] (N₨/रू.), Pakistani and Sri Lankan (SLRs/රු) rupees		U+20A8 ₨ RUPEE SIGN
SRe	Seychellois rupee[22]	Also SR
Rp	Indonesian rupiah
₪	Israeli new shekel		U+20AA ₪ NEW SHEQEL SIGN
Tsh	Tanzanian shilling	Also TSh
Ksh	Kenyan shilling	Also KSh
Sh.So.	Somali shilling[23]
USh	Ugandan shilling
S/	Peruvian sol
SDR	Special drawing rights
, сом	Kyrgyzstani som	: Early in 2017 the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic approved an underlined C as new currency symbol.[24]	U+20C0 ⃀ SOM SIGN
৳	Bangladeshi Taka	Also Tk. However, the Unicode code point refers to it as the "Bengali Rupee sign".	U+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN
WS$	Samoan tālā	Symbol based on previous name "West Samoan tala". Also T and ST. See also $.
	Kazakhstani tenge		U+20B8 ₸ TENGE SIGN
₮	Mongolian tögrög		U+20AE
VT	Vanuatu vatu[25]
₩	North Korean won; South Korean won		U+20A9 ₩ WON SIGN
¥	Japanese yen (円/圓); Chinese Renminbi yuan (元/圆)	Used with one and two crossbars, depending on font. 円 (en, lit. "circle") is usually used in Japan. 元 is also used in reference to the Macanese pataca and the Hong Kong and Taiwanese dollars.	U+00A5 ¥ YEN SIGN, U+FFE5 ￥ FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN
zł	Polish złoty

Other rupee symbols[]