Yen Symbol ¥
Tap the button to copy the yen symbol, or grab a variant below. The table has its Alt code, HTML entity and Unicode details.
| Copy | Unicode name | Codepoint | HTML | Windows Alt code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yen Sign | U+00A5 | ¥ | Alt+0165 | |
| Cjk Unified Ideograph-5186 | U+5186 | none | none |
- The yen symbol is Unicode U+00A5 (Yen Sign).
- In HTML, type
¥to get ¥. - On Windows, hold Alt and type 0165 on the numeric keypad.
- On a Mac, press Option+Y.
- It is a single character: it survives copy and paste into any text field and counts as one character against limits.
The yen sign serves both the Japanese yen and, as the yuan renminbi sign, Chinese currency. Japan also writes prices with the kanji 円 after the number. In Japanese text encodings the yen sign historically occupied the backslash position, a quirk that still surfaces in file paths.