Currency symbol
Appearance
A currency symbol is a short symbol used as for a currency's name.
When writing currency amounts the location of the symbol varies by currency. Many currencies in the English-speaking world and Latin America, place it before the amount (e.g., R$50,00). The Cape Verdean escudo places its symbol in the decimal separator position (i.e., 20$00).[1] The usage of many European countries, such as France, Germany, Scandinavian countries, is to place the symbol after the amount 20,50 €.
List of presently used currency symbols
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¤ | General currency sign | This is used when the correct symbol for the currency is not available |
؋ | Afghan afghani | |
Ar | Malagasy ariary[2] | |
฿ | Thai baht | |
B/. | Panamanian balboa | |
Br | Belarusian ruble |
Ethiopian birr|
Bs. | Bolivian boliviano |
Venezuelan bolívarBolívar sometimes Bs.F. |
Bs.F. | Venezuelan bolívar variant | Usually Bs. |
GH₵ | Ghana cedi | |
¢ | cent, centavo, &c. | A centesimal subdivision of currencies such as the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso. (See article.) See also c |
c | cent &c. variant | Preferred by currencies such as the Australian, New Zealand, South African cents; the West African CFA centime; and the divisions of the euro. See also ¢ |
Ch. | Bhutanese chhertum | A centesimal division of the ngultrum. |
₡ | Costa Rican colón, symbol was also used for the Salvadoran colón. | The Salvadoran colón was discontinued in 2001 and it was replaced by the US dollar. |
C$ | Nicaraguan córdoba | |
D | Gambian dalasi | |
ден | Macedonian denar | Latin form: DEN |
دج | Algerian dinar | Latin form: DA |
.د.ب | Bahraini dinar | Latin form: BD |
د.ع | Iraqi dinar | |
JD | Jordanian dinar | |
د.ك | Kuwaiti dinar | Latin form: K.D. |
ل.د | Libyan dinar | Latin form: LD |
дин | Serbian dinar | Latin form: din. |
د.ت | Tunisian dinar | Latin form: DT |
د.م. | Moroccan dirham | Latin forms: DH or Dhs |
د.إ | United Arab Emirates dirham | Latin forms: DH or Dhs |
Db | São Tomé and Príncipe dobra | |
$ | Australian (A$), Bahamian (B$), Barbadian (Bds$), Belizean (BZ$), Bermudian (BD$), Brunei (B$), Canadian (Can$), Cayman Islands (CI$), East Caribbean (EC$), Fiji (FJ$), Guyanese (G$),[3] Hong Kong (HK$/ Argentine, Chilean (CLP$), Colombian (COL$), Cuban ($MN), Cuban convertible (CUC$), Dominican (RD$), Mexican (Mex$), and Uruguayan ($U) pesos |
May appear with either one or two bars (![]() Kiribati and Tuvalu's dollars are pegged 1:1 with the Australian dollar. Brunei's dollar is pegged 1:1 with the Singaporean dollar. See also C$ and MOP$ and R$ and T$ and WS$ Unicode: See $ for variants. |
₫ | Vietnamese đồng | |
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Armenian dram | |
Esc | Cape Verdean escudo | Also the double-barred dollar sign (cifrão): ![]() |
€ | 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. |
ƒ | [4] Netherlands Antillean guilder (NAƒ) |
Aruban florin (Afl.)|
Ft | Hungarian forint | |
FBu | Burundian franc | |
FCFA | Central African CFA franc | Pegged 1:1 with West African CFA franc |
CFA | West African CFA franc | Pegged 1:1 with Central African CFA franc |
Fr | Comorian (CF), Congolese (CF, FC), Djiboutian (Fdj/DF), Guinean (FG/GFr) and Swiss (SFr) francs | Also F. The character ₣, representing an F with a double bar, proposed as a symbol for the French Franc by Édouard Balladur in 1988 was never adopted, it is represented by a ligature Fr in some fonts. |
FRw | [5] | Rwandan francPossibly also RF[6] and RFr[7] |
G | Haitian gourde | |
gr | Polish grosz | A centesimal division of the złoty |
₲ | Paraguayan guaraní | Or ![]() |
h | Czech haléř | A centesimal division of the koruna |
₴ | Ukrainian hryvnia | |
₭ | Lao kip | Or ₭N |
Kč | Czech koruna | |
kr | Danish (Dkr) and Norwegian krones Swedish krona Faroese and Icelandic (Íkr) króna |
Faroese króna pegged 1:1 with Danish krone. |
kn | Croatian kuna | |
MK | Malawian kwacha | |
ZK | Zambian kwacha | |
Kz | Angolan kwanza | |
K | Papua New Guinean kina |
Myanma kyat|
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Georgian lari | |
L | Albanian lek Honduran lempira |
Also used as the currency symbol for the Lesotho one-loti and the Swazi one-lilangeni note Also uncommonly used for the pound sign £ |
Le | Sierra Leonean leone | |
лв | Bulgarian lev | |
E | Swazi lilangeni | Symbol based on the plural form "emalangeni". The one-lilageni note employs the currency symbol L |
lp | Croatian lipa | A centesimal division of the kuna. |
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Turkish lira | |
M | Lesotho loti | Symbol based on plural form "maloti". The one-loti note employs the currency symbol L |
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Azerbaijani manat | Also m. and man. Unicode: U+20BC ₼ MANAT SIGN (may display incorrectly) |
KM | Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark | Cyrillic form: КМ |
MT | [8] | Mozambican meticalAlso MTn |
₥ | Mill, mil, &.c | An uncommon millesimal subdivision of US dollars and other currencies. (See article.) |
Nfk | Eritrean nakfa | Also Nfa[9] |
₦ | Nigerian naira | |
Nu. | Bhutanese ngultrum | |
UM | [10] | Mauritanian ouguiya|
T$ | ʻanga | Tongan pa|
MOP$ | Macanese pataca | Also |
₱ | Philippine peso | Also ₱, PHP, and P |
Pt. | Egyptian piastre | A centesimal division of the Egyptian pound. |
£ | British, Falkland Islands (FK£), Gibraltar, Manx (M£), St. Helena | Also ₤ and L, all pegged 1:1 to GBP |
ج.م. | Egyptian pound | Latin: L.E. Rarely £E or E£ |
LL | Lebanese pound | |
LS | Syrian pound | |
P | Botswana pula | |
Q | Guatemalan quetzal | |
q | Albanian qindarkë | A centesimal division of the lek. |
R | South African rand | Also sometimes Russian &c. rubles |
R$ | Brazilian real | The $ is sometimes informally written with a double bar like a double-barred dollar sign: ![]() |
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Iranian rial | Unicode: U+FDFC ﷼ RIAL SIGN |
ر.ع. | Omani rial | |
ر.ق | Qatari riyal | Latin: QR |
ر.س | Saudi riyal | Latin: SR. Also: ریال |
៛ | Cambodian riel | |
RM | Malaysian ringgit | |
p | British &c. pennies | The penny is now a centesimal division of the pound. |
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Pridnestrovie ruble | |
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Russian ruble | Unicode: U+20BD ₽ RUBLE SIGN |
Rf. | Maldivian rufiyaa | Also MRf., MVR and .ރ |
₹ | Indian rupee | Previously ₨ or Re (before 15 July 2010). Unicode: U+20B9 ₹ INDIAN RUPEE SIGN |
₨ | [11] Nepalese[12] (N₨/रू.), Pakistani and Sri Lankan (SLRs/රු) rupees | Mauritian,|
SRe | [13] | Seychellois rupeeAlso SR |
Rp | Indonesian rupiah | |
₪ | Israeli new shekel | |
Tsh | Tanzanian shilling | Also TSh |
Ksh | Kenyan shilling | Also KSh |
Sh.So. | [14] | Somali shilling|
USh | Ugandan shilling | |
S/ | Peruvian sol | |
SDR | Special drawing rights | |
сом | Kyrgyzstani som | |
৳ | Bangladeshi Taka | Also Tk |
WS$ | Samoan tālā | Symbol based on previous name "West Samoan tala". Also T and ST. See also $ |
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Kazakhstani tenge | U+20B8 ₸ TENGE SIGN (may display incorrectly) |
₮ | Mongolian tögrög | |
VT | [15] | Vanuatu vatu|
₩ | South Korean won | North Korean won|
¥ | Japanese yen ( Chinese Renminbi yuan ( |
Used with one and two crossbars. Unicode: U+00A5 ¥ YEN SIGN, U+FFE5 ¥ FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN |
zł | Polish złoty |
List of currency symbols no longer in use
[change | change source]Symbol | Uses |
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₳ | Argentine austral symbol |
₢ Cr$ | Brazilian cruzeiro symbol |
₰ | pfennig symbol of the German Mark (1875–1923) and the German Reichsmark (1923–1948) |
DM | East German Deutsche Mark (east) symbol (1948–1964) |
DM | West German and united German Deutsche Mark (west) symbol (1948–2001) |
₯ | Greek drachma symbol |
₠ | ECU symbol (not widely used, and now historical; replaced by the euro) |
ƒ | Dutch gulden symbol, currently used in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba |
Fr | franc symbol, used in France and other countries; in France an F with double bar (₣) was proposed in 1988 but never adopted |
Kčs | Czechoslovak koruna symbol (1919–1993) |
₤ | lira symbol, formerly used in Italy, San Marino and Vatican City (although not as an official symbol), and sometimes in Malta |
Lm | Maltese lira symbol |
Ls | Latvian lats symbol (1922–2013) |
Lt | Lithuanian litas symbol (1922–2014) |
M | East German Mark der DDR symbol (1968–1990) |
ℳ | German Mark symbol (1875–1923) |
MDN | East German Mark der Deutschen Notenbank symbol (1964–1968) |
mk | Finnish markka symbol (1860–2002) |
PF | Philippine peso fuerte symbol (1852–1901) |
₧ | Spanish peseta symbol (1869–2002) |
R or RD | Swedish riksdaler (1777–1873) |
ℛℳ | German reichsmark symbol (1923–1948) |
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Portuguese escudo symbol (cifrão) |
Sk | Slovak koruna (1993–2008) |
₷ | Spesmilo (1907 – First World War) in the Esperanto movement |
₶ | Livre tournois symbol, used in medieval France |
𐆖 | Denarius used in Ancient Rome from 211 BC to the 3rd century AD |
£2 10s 3d, £2 10/3, £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 hyphen or ASCII hyphen-minus was often used to indicate the absence of an amount e.g. 3/- or -/6 |
I/. | Peruvian inti (1985-1991) |
References
[change | change source]- ↑ (in Portuguese) Banco de Cabo Verde. "Moedas Archived January 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine." Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Banky Foiben'i Madagasikara Archived 2018-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 24 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Bank of Guyana. Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Centrale Bank van Aruba. About Us – A Brief History of the Bank." Accessed 23 Feb 2011.
- ↑ National Bank of Rwanda. "Legal tender Archived 2011-04-03 at the Wayback Machine." Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ University of British Columbia: Saunders School of Business. "Currencies of the World Archived 2011-11-29 at the Wayback Machine." Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Lonely Planet. "Rwanda." Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Banco de Moçambique Archived 2010-06-29 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Forexforums.com. "Currency symbol finder Archived 2011-02-21 at the Wayback Machine." Accessed 24 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Banque Centrale de Mauritanie Archived 2010-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Bank of Mauritius. Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Nepal Rastra Bank. Accessed 24 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Central Bank of Seychelles. Accessed 25 Feb 2011.
- ↑ Central Bank of Somalia. Accessed 24 Feb 2011.
- ↑ The Reserve Bank of Vanuatu. "Current Banknotes and Coins in Circulation Archived 2018-08-02 at the Wayback Machine." Accessed 25 Feb 2011.