¥
¥9 Chinese price sticker
¥ is a currency sign used for the following currencies:
The base unit of the two currencies above share the same Chinese character (圓/元/円), pronounced yuan in Mandarin Chinese (should NOT be pronounced as "Yu-An", the "u" and "a" should be pronounced together) and en in Standard Japanese. A currency sign is a graphic symbol often used as a shorthand for a Currency 's name A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of Goods and/or services It is one form of Money, where money is A Chinese character, also known as a Han character ( is a Logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi Japanese ( is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities The symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a double stroke or, also commonly in Mainland China, with a single stroke. Mainland China, Continental China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term synonymous with the area that is under the jurisdiction
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. Code page 932 (abbreviated as CP932, also known by the IANA name Windows-31J) is Microsoft's extension of Shift JIS to include NEC The backslash ( \) is a typographical mark ( Glyph) used chiefly in Computing. American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII) It is also used wherever a backslash is used, such as the directory separator character and the general escape character,[1] essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look, a peculiarity that stems from JIS X 0201. A path is the general form of a file or directory name giving a file's name and its unique location in a File system. In Computing and Telecommunication, an escape character is a single character which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative JIS X 0201, a Japanese Industrial Standard developed in 1969 (then called JIS C 6220 until the JIS category reform was the first Japanese Character encoding Although this symbol is unavailable on many keyboards, it can be typed by holding the ALT key down and typing the numbers 0165 on the right side of the keyboard and releasing the ALT key. It can also be typed by holding down the ALT key, and typing the numbers 157 on the right side of the keyboard, and releasing the ALT key, or by holding down the ALT key and typing the numbers 02213 on the right side of the keyboard and then releasing the ALT key.
On Mac OS X using English, the yen sign can be entered by holding down the Option key and typing the letter Y.
In HTML, it is rendered with ¥
References
ISO 646 is an ISO standard that since 1972 has specified a 7- Bit character code from which several national standards are derived The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (eɪ plural B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee or occasionally be (biː plural bees. C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cee or occasionally ce (siː D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee or occasionally de (diː E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e (iː plural es or ees (also written E's E F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff (ɛf G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (dʒiː I is the ninth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its English name is i (aɪ J is the tenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet; it was the last of the 26 letters to be added K is the eleventh letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay (keɪ L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is el or occasionally ell (ɛl M is the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em (ɛm N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en (ɛn O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin Alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o (oʊ plural usually o's or os; sometimes P is the sixteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee or occasionally pe (piː Q is the seventeenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue (kjuː R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ar (ɑr pronounced or) S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ess or occasionally es (ɛs generally es- T is the twentieth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled tee or occasionally te (tiː U is the twenty-first letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u (juː V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (viː W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u (ˈdʌbljuː X is the twenty-fourth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex or occasionally ecks (ɛks plural exes The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the modern Latin alphabet. A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. Pitch The grave accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred only on the last syllable of a word in cases where the Pitch The circumflex accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred (subject to certain rules on the accented syllable A ring Diacritic may appear above or below letters It may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in various contexts Diaeresis or trema See also Diaeresis History Historically the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark The tilde (~ (/ˈtɪldə/ is a Grapheme with several uses The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus For a more detailed treatment of this topic see the German-language Wikipedia article ß is nearly unique among the letters of the Latin ( minuscule:) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a Macron (¯ The Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters in collating order Description The Vietnamese alphabet called Chữ Quốc Ngữ The Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters in collating order Description The Vietnamese alphabet called Chữ Quốc Ngữ The open-mid central rounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet Ƴ ( minuscule: ƴ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a hook. The near-close near-front rounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet The Latin alphabet originated in the 7th century BC, undergoing a history of 2500 years before emerging as one of the dominant Writing systems in use today Palaeography, palæography ( British) or paleography ( American) (from the Greek grc παλαιός palaiós, Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the Writing systems of many languages throughout the world A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation Roman numerals are a Numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. Unicode as of version 51 defines the following ranges for encoding the Latin alphabet and derived characters See also Mapping of Unicode characters List of Latin letters. Basic alphabet Extensions and ligatures Letters with diacritics Digraphs trigraphs and tetragraphs
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