U+00A5 YEN SIGN

¥

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Decimal / Nº
165
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
narrow
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+00A5, officially named YEN SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin 1 Sup block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Currency Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has narrow in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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165 Copied!
UTF-8 C2 A5 Copied!
UTF-16 00 A5 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 00 A5 Copied!
URL-Quoted %C2%A5 Copied!
HTML hex reference ¥ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'00A5' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u00A5 Copied!
C and C++ \u00a5 Copied!
C# \u00a5 Copied!
CSS \0000A5 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(165) Copied!
Go \u00a5 Copied!
JavaScript \u00A5 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{00a5} Copied!
JSON \u00A5 Copied!
Java \u00A5 Copied!
Lua \u{00A5} Copied!
Matlab char(165) Copied!
Perl \x{00A5} Copied!
PHP \u{00a5} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\00A5' Copied!
PowerShell `u{00A5} Copied!
Python \u00a5 Copied!
Ruby \u{00a5} Copied!
Rust \u{00a5} Copied!