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A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined by a monetary authority, such as the national central bank for the currency concerned. A symbol may be positioned in various ways, according to national convention: before, between or after the numeric amounts: €2.50 , 2,50€ and 2 50 .
The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".
Symbol Name Currency Notes Unicode ؋ Af ⁄ Afs: afghani Afghan afghani: Af is the singular and Afs is the plural U+060B ؋ AFGHANI SIGN: Ar: ariary Malagasy ariary [1] ฿ baht Thai baht: Also B when ฿ is unavailable U+0E3F ฿ THAI CURRENCY SYMBOL BAHT: B/. balboa Panamanian balboa: Br: birr Ethiopian birr ₿ bitcoin Bitcoin ...
The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England. The same symbol is used for other currencies called pound, such as the Egyptian and Syrian pounds.
The currency sign was once a part of the Mac OS Roman character set, but Apple changed the symbol at that code point to the euro sign in Mac OS 8.5.In pre-Unicode Windows character sets (Windows-1252), the generic currency sign was retained at 0xA4 and the euro sign was introduced as a new code point, at 0x80 in the little used (by Microsoft) control-code space 0x80 to 0x9F.
The peso is usually denoted by the symbol "₱". This symbol was added to the Unicode standard in version 3.2 and is assigned U+20B1 ₱ PESO SIGN (₱).The symbol can be accessed through some word processors by typing in 20b1 and then pressing the Alt+X buttons simultaneously, or by pressing and holding Alt, then pressing 8369 on the keypad. [3]
Currency Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing unique monetary signs. Many currency signs can be found in other Unicode blocks, especially when the currency symbol is unique to a country that uses a script not generally used outside that country.
The florin sign (ƒ) is a symbol that is used for the currencies named florin, [1] also called guilder. The Dutch name for the currency is gulden. The symbol "ƒ" is the lowercase version of Ƒ of the Latin alphabet. In many serif typefaces, it can often be substituted with a normal italic small-letter f ( f).