currency symbols
Currency symbols
Every major currency sign, including the ones your keyboard skips.
38 symbols · tap any one to copy
Currency
Type a price in the right currency when your keyboard has no key for it — invoices, marketplace listings, travel budgets and crypto posts.
Currency signs are split across Unicode by age. The ones that were already on typewriters and early computers, $ ¢ £ ¥ and the generic ¤, sit in the ASCII range or in Latin-1 Supplement, encoded before anyone thought a dedicated block was needed. Everything newer went into the Currency Symbols block at U+20A0, which is essentially a record of monetary history added one character at a time as countries introduced or redesigned their money.
Some of those additions have unusually well documented birthdays. ₹ was chosen through a public design competition run by the Indian government and entered Unicode 6.0 in 2010. ₺ followed in 2012 after a competition of its own in Turkey. ₽ arrived in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, after a public vote on the design of the ruble sign. ₿ is the youngest of the group, added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, which is a decade after the software it represents. If a symbol looks unfamiliar to your computer, its age is usually the reason.
The odd one out is ¤, the generic currency sign. It is a placeholder, not a currency: it was used in older character sets in the slot where a national symbol would otherwise go, so that the same encoding could serve several countries. Some European keyboard layouts still have a key for it. Nobody prices anything in ¤, but it survives as the symbol for money in the abstract.
Placement conventions differ more than the symbols do, and getting them wrong looks careless. English writes the sign before the number with no space, as in £24. French convention puts the euro sign after the amount with a space, and that space should be non-breaking so the number and the symbol never split across a line. Several currencies place the sign after the figure as standard. Copying the right character is only half the job.
One practical warning for anything financial. A symbol is not a currency code. The dollar sign is used by more than twenty countries, ₨ covers several separate rupee currencies, and £ has meanings beyond sterling. On an invoice, a marketplace listing or a contract, write the three letter ISO code (USD, EUR, INR) at least once, and keep the symbol for the places where the context is already obvious.
Common questions
What is the bitcoin symbol and is it official?
It is ₿, encoded at U+20BF and added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017. That makes it an officially standardised character rather than an image or a font hack, so it copies into plain text like any other currency sign. Very old systems that predate the addition will show an empty box instead.
Why does a currency symbol show as a box on one computer but not another?
Because the receiving device has no glyph for it in the font being used, which usually means the symbol was added to Unicode more recently than that font was updated. Newer signs like ₿, ₾ and ₼ are the most affected. Nothing is wrong with what you copied.
Should I write €50 or 50 €?
It depends on the language, not the currency. English convention places the sign before the amount with no gap, while French and several other European conventions put it after with a space, ideally a non-breaking one so the pair never splits across a line. Follow the convention of the language you are writing in.
Is $ only used for the US dollar?
No, and this is why symbols alone are risky in anything financial. Over twenty currencies use the dollar sign, including the Canadian, Australian and Singapore dollars, and several peso currencies. If the amount matters, write the ISO code such as USD or CAD alongside it at least once.