Currency symbol

When writing currency amounts, the location of the symbol varies by language. Many currencies in English-speaking countries and Latin America (except Haiti) 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.

Formal dimensions of the euro sign

The euro sign as implemented in a selection of typefaces

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.

Some of these symbols are rare because the currency sub-unit that they represent is obsolete or obsolescent due to currency inflation.

Currency symbols
Symbol	Name	Currency	Notes	Unicode
؋	afghani	Afghan afghani		U+060B ؋ AFGHANI SIGN
Ar	ariary	Malagasy ariary[8]
฿	baht	Thai baht		U+0E3F ฿ THAI CURRENCY SYMBOL BAHT
B/.	balboa	Panamanian balboa
Br	birr	Ethiopian birr
	ruble	Belarusian ruble
₿	bitcoin	cryptocurrency		U+20BF ₿ BITCOIN SIGN
Bs.S.	bolivar	Venezuelan bolívar	Usually Bs.
₵	cedi	Ghana cedi		U+20B5 ₵ CEDI SIGN
¢	cent, centavo, etc.		Fraction. A centesimal subdivision of currencies such as the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.	U+00A2 ¢ CENT SIGN
c	cent etc. variant		Fraction. 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.	chhertum	Bhutanese chhertum	Fraction. A centesimal division of the ngultrum.
₡	colon	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
C$	córdoba	Nicaraguan córdoba
D	dalasi	Gambian dalasi
ден	denar	Macedonian denar	Latin form: DEN
دج	dinar	Algerian dinar	Latin form: DA
.د.ب	dinar	Bahraini dinar	Latin form: BD
د.ع	dinar	Iraqi dinar	Latin form: I.Q.D.
د.أ	dinar	Jordanian dinar
د.ك	dinar	Kuwaiti dinar	Latin form: K.D.
.د	dinar	Libyan dinar	Latin form: LD
дин	dinar	Serbian dinar	Latin form: din.
د.ت	dinar	Tunisian dinar	Latin form: DT
د.م.	dirham	Moroccan dirham	Latin forms: DH; Dhs
د.إ	dirham	United Arab Emirates dirham	Latin forms DH; Dhs
Db	dobra	São Tomé and Príncipe dobra
$	dollar	Australian (A$), Bahamian (B$), Barbadian (Bds$), Belizean (BZ$), Bermudian (BD$), Brunei (B$), Canadian (CA$), Cayman Islands (CI$), East Caribbean (EC$), Fiji (FJ$), Guyanese (G$),[9] Hong Kong (HK$/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$), and United States (US$)	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$, T$, and WS$	U+0024 $ DOLLAR SIGN
	peso	Argentine ($), Chilean (CLP$), Colombian (COP$), Cuban ($MN), Cuban convertible (CUC$), Dominican (RD$), Mexican ($), and Uruguayan ($U)
₫	dong	Vietnamese đồng		U+20AB ₫ DONG SIGN
֏	dram	Armenian dram		U+058F ֏ ARMENIAN DRAM SIGN
Esc	escudo	Cape Verdean escudo	Also the double-barred dollar sign (cifrão):
Ξ	Ether	Ethereum
€	euro	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	florin	Aruban florin (Afl.)[10] Netherlands Antillean guilder (NAƒ)		U+0192 ƒ LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK
Ft	forint	Hungarian forint
FBu	franc	Burundian franc
FCFA	franc	Central African CFA franc	Pegged 1:1 to West African CFA franc.
CFA	franc	West African CFA franc	Pegged 1:1 to Central African CFA franc.
F, Fr, fr	franc	Comorian (CF), Congolese (CF, FC), Djiboutian (Fdj/DF), Guinean (FG/GFr), and Swiss (SFr) francs	Also Fr and possibly ₣. (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.[11][12] In some fonts, this code point is represented by Fr combined in a typographic ligature).
FRw	franc	Rwandan franc[13]	Possibly also RF[14] and RFr[15]
G	gourde	Haitian gourde
gr	grosz	Polish grosz	Fraction. A centesimal division of the złoty
₲	guarani	Paraguayan guaraní		U+20B2 ₲ GUARANI SIGN
h	haler	Czech haléř	Fraction. A centesimal division of the koruna
₴	hryvnia	Ukrainian hryvnia		U+20B4 ₴ HRYVNIA SIGN
₭	kip	Lao kip	or ₭N.	U+20AD ₭ KIP SIGN
Kč	koruna	Czech koruna
kr	krone	Danish krone, Norwegian krone, Swedish krona, Icelandic króna, Faroese króna	Faroese króna pegged 1:1 to Danish krone, which is in turn pegged to the Euro through the ERM.
kn	kuna	Croatian kuna
Kz	kwanza	Angolan kwanza
K	kyat	Myanmar kyat, Papua New Guinean kina, Malawian kwacha, Zambian kwacha
	lari	Georgian lari		U+20BE ₾ LARI SIGN
L	lek	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	leone	Sierra Leonean leone
лв.	lev	Bulgarian lev
E, L	lilangeni	Swazi lilangeni	Symbol "E" is from the plural "emalangeni", symbol "L" (singular) is used on the one-lilageni note
lp	lipa	Croatian lipa	Fraction. A centesimal division of the kuna.
₺	lira	Turkish lira		U+20BA ₺ TURKISH LIRA SIGN
M	loti	Lesotho loti	Symbol based on plural form "maloti". The one-loti note employs the symbol L
₼	manat	Azerbaijani manat	Also m. or man.	U+20BC ₼ MANAT SIGN
KM	mark	Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark	Cyrillic form: КМ
MT	metical	Mozambican metical[16]	Also MTn
₥	mill	Mill, mil, etc.	Fraction. An uncommon millesimal subdivision of US dollars and other currencies.	U+20A5 ₥ MILL SIGN
Nfk	nakfa	Eritrean nakfa	Also Nfa[17]
₦	naira	Nigerian naira		U+20A6 ₦ NAIRA SIGN
Nu.	ngultrum	Bhutanese ngultrum
UM	ouguiya	Mauritanian ouguiya[18]
T$	paanga	Tongan paʻanga
MOP$	pataca	Macanese pataca	Also 圓 and 元
p	penny	Alderney, British, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Manx and Saint Helena pennies	Fraction.
₱	peso	Philippine peso	Also ₱, PHP, and P.	U+20B1 ₱ PESO SIGN
pt	piastre	Egyptian piastre	Fraction. 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.
£	pound	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.		U+00A3 £ POUND SIGN
LL	pound	Lebanese pound
P	pula	Botswana pula
Q	quetzal	Guatemalan quetzal
q	qindarke	Albanian qindarkë	Fraction. A centesimal division of the lek.
R	rand	South African rand	Also sometimes Russian etc. rubles.
R$	real	Brazilian real	The $ is sometimes written with a double bar like a double-barred dollar sign:
﷼	rial	Iranian rial		U+FDFC ﷼ RIAL SIGN
ر.ع.	rial	Omani rial
ر.ق	rial	Qatari riyal	Latin: QR
ر.س	riyal	Saudi riyal	Latin: SR. Also ﷼
ر.ي	rial	Yemeni rial
៛	riel	Cambodian riel		U+17DB ៛ KHMER CURRENCY SYMBOL RIEL
RM	ringgit	Malaysian ringgit
	ruble	Pridnestrovie ruble
₽	ruble	Russian ruble		U+20BD ₽ RUBLE SIGN
Rf.	rufiyaa	Maldivian rufiyaa	Also MRf., MVR and .ރ
₹	rupee	Indian rupee	Previously ₨ or Re (before 15 July 2010).	U+20B9 ₹ INDIAN RUPEE SIGN
₨	rupee	Mauritian,[19] Nepalese[20] (N₨/रू.), Pakistani and Sri Lankan (SLRs/රු) rupees		U+20A8 ₨ RUPEE SIGN
SRe	rupee	Seychellois rupee[21]	Also SR
Rp	rupiah	Indonesian rupiah
₪	shekel	Israeli new shekel		U+20AA ₪ NEW SHEQEL SIGN
Tsh	shilling	Tanzanian shilling	Also TSh
Ksh	shilling	Kenyan shilling	Also KSh
Sh.So.	shilling	Somali shilling[22]
USh	shilling	Ugandan shilling
S/	sol	Peruvian sol
SDR	special	Special drawing rights
, сом	som	Kyrgyzstani som	: Kyrgyz National Bank approved the underlined С (Cyrillic Es) as currency symbol (2017).[23]	U+20C0 ⃀ SOM SIGN (version 14.0)
৳	taka	Bangladeshi Taka	Also Tk. However, the Unicode code point refers to it as the "Bengali Rupee sign".	U+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN
WS$	tala	Samoan tālā	Symbol based on previous name "West Samoan tala". Also T and ST. See also: $
	tenge	Kazakhstani tenge		U+20B8 ₸ TENGE SIGN
₮	togrog	Mongolian tögrög		U+20AE ₮ TUGRIK SIGN
VT	vatu	Vanuatu vatu[24]
₩	won	North Korean won, South Korean won (원 / 圓)		U+20A9 ₩ WON SIGN
¥	yuan	Chinese Renminbi yuan (元 / 圆)	Used with one and two crossbars, depending on font. 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
	yen	Japanese yen (円 / 圓);	円 (en, lit. "circle") is usually used in Japan.
zł	zloty	Polish złoty

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Symbol	Uses
₳	Argentine austral
Cz$	Brazilian cruzado
₢ Cr$	Brazilian cruzeiro
NCz$	Brazilian cruzado novo
Rs$	Brazilian real
₰	Pfennig, a subdivision of the German Mark (1875–1923) and the German Reichsmark (1923–1948)
M	East German Deutsche Mark (east) (1948–1964)
DM	West German and united German Deutsche Mark (west) (1948–2001)
₻	Nordic mark symbol used by Ludvig Holberg in Denmark and Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries[26]
₯	Greek drachma
₠	ECU (not widely used, and now historical; replaced by the euro)
ƒ	Dutch gulden, currently used in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba
Fr	Franc, used in France and other countries; in France an F with double bar (₣) was proposed in 1988 but never adopted
Kčs	Czechoslovak koruna (1919–1993)
₤	Lira, formerly used in Italy, San Marino and Vatican City (although not as an official symbol), and sometimes in Malta
Lm	Maltese lira
Ls	Latvian lats (1922–2013, not continuously)
Lt	Lithuanian litas (1922–2014, not continuously)
M	East German Mark der DDR (1968–1990)
ℳ	German Mark (1875–1923)
MDN	East German Mark der Deutschen Notenbank (1964–1968)
mk	Finnish markka (1860–2002)
PF	Philippine peso fuerte (1852–1901)
₧	Spanish peseta (1869–2002)
R or RD	Swedish riksdaler (1777–1873)
ℛℳ	German reichsmark (1923–1948)
	Portuguese escudo (cifrão)
Sk	Slovak koruna (1993–2008)
₷	Spesmilo (1907 – First World War) in the Esperanto movement
₶	Livre tournois, used in medieval France
𐆚	As coin used during the Roman Empire and Roman Republic
𐆖	Denarius coin used in Ancient Rome from 211 BC to the 3rd century AD
𐆙	Dupondius coin used during the Roman Empire and Roman Republic
𐆗	Quinarius coin used in Ancient Rome from 211 BC to the 3rd century AD
𐆘	Sestertius coin used in Ancient Rome from 211 BC to the 3rd century AD
£2 10s 3d, £2/10/3	The United Kingdom and British Commonwealth countries, before decimalisation, used several recognised formats for amounts in pounds, shillings and pence, all for the same amount. A dash was often used to indicate a zero amount of pence or shillings, e.g. 3/- or £4/-/6d
I/.	Peruvian inti (1985-1991)
৲	Bengali rupee mark[27][28]
৹	Bengali ānā, historically used to represent 1/16 of a taka or rupee[28]
৻	Bengali gaṇḍā, historically used to represent 1/20 of an ānā (1/320 of a taka or rupee)[28]
߾	Dorome sign using the N'Ko alphabet[29]
߿	Taman sign using the N'Ko alphabet[29]
𞲰	Indic Siyaq rupee mark[30]

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