Money symbols and currency signs from around the world
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Last reviewed on May 7, 2026
Unicode encodes currency signs in two places: a small set of long-standing signs (dollar $, cent ¢, pound £, yen ¥, currency ¤) lives inside Latin-1 Supplement, and the rest sit in the dedicated Currency Symbols block at U+20A0–U+20CF. New currency signs are added to the standard as central banks introduce them; the bitcoin sign and the Indian rupee sign are recent additions.
The currency symbol (e.g. €) is right for general writing aimed at a single-currency audience. The three-letter ISO 4217 code (e.g. EUR) is right when readers may not recognize the symbol, when more than one currency uses the same symbol (the dollar is shared by many countries), or when a price is being recorded for processing rather than reading.
Where the audience is mixed, write both: £25 (GBP). Don't combine the symbol and the code redundantly: $25 USD is acceptable in informal writing but reads awkwardly in formal text.
Placement of the symbol is a locale convention. English uses prefix placement: $25, €25, £25. French and German typically place the symbol after the amount with a non-breaking space: 25 €. Swiss conventions vary by canton and language. When writing for a specific audience, follow that audience's convention; when writing for the web at large, the prefix form is the safer default.
Screen readers handle common currency signs well: the dollar, euro, and pound are pronounced as currency names. Less common signs may be read as “unknown character” in some configurations. When precision matters — legal text, invoices, financial reports — spelling out the currency name or the ISO code is the safest choice.
Different locales use different thousands separators (comma in English, period in many European languages, space in French and SI usage) and different decimal markers (period in English, comma in much of Europe). The currency sign does not change this; the locale does. For software, format the number according to the user's locale and append the symbol or ISO code last.
For typographic touches that often appear next to prices — the per-mille sign, the percent sign, and the section sign — see punctuation and special characters.
To type currency signs directly, see the keyboard shortcuts guide. If a recently-added currency sign (such as the bitcoin sign) shows as a square box on your device, the tofu rendering guide explains why and what to do.