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{{Infobox currency sign
|mark=¥
|name=yen, yuan sign
|unicode = {{unichar|00A5|YEN SIGN|html=}}
|variant1 =￥
|variant1 caption = {{unichar|FFE5|FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN}}

|currency = [[Finance:Japanese yen|Japanese yen]], [[Finance:Renminbi|Chinese yuan]]
}}
The '''yen''' or '''yuan sign''', ¥, is a currency sign used for the [[Finance:Japanese yen|Japanese yen]] and the [[Finance:Renminbi|Chinese yuan]] [[Finance:Currency|currencies]] when writing in Western scripts. This monetary symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke. The symbol is usually placed before the value it represents, for example: {{code|¥50}}, unlike the [[Social:Kanji|kanji]]/Chinese character, which is more commonly used in Japanese and Chinese and is written following the amount: {{code|50円}} in Japan and {{code|50元}} in China.

[[File:9yuan.jpg|thumb|right|130px|An example of a price sticker from China]]

== Code points ==
The [[Unicode]] [[Code point|code point]] is {{unichar|00A5|Yen sign|html=}}.  Additionally, there is a full width character, {{code|￥}}, at code point {{unichar|FFE5|Fullwidth Yen sign|html=}}{{efn|In the block "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms"}} for use with wide fonts, especially East Asian fonts.

There was no code-point for this symbol in the original (7-bit) US-[[ASCII]] and consequently many early systems reassigned {{code|5C}} (allocated to the backslash (\) in ASCII) to the yen sign. With the arrival of 8-bit encoding, the ISO/IEC 8859-1 ("ISO Latin 1") character set assigned code point {{code|A5}} to the ¥ in 1985; Unicode continues this encoding. 

In JIS X 0201, of which Shift JIS is an extension, assigns code point {{code|0x5C}} to the latin-script yen sign: as noted above, this is the code used for the backslash in [[ASCII]].  This standard was widely adopted in Japan.

===Microsoft Windows===
Microsoft adopted the ISO code {{code|A5}} in Windows-1252 for the Americas and Western Europe but Japanese-language locales of Microsoft operating systems use the [[Code page 932 (Microsoft Windows)|code page 932]] character encoding, which is a variant of Shift JIS. Hence, 0x5C is displayed as a yen sign in Japanese-locale fonts on Windows.<ref name="kaplan">{{cite web | title=When is a backslash not a backslash? | date=2005-09-17 | author=Kaplan, Michael S. | url=http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.html}}</ref> It is nonetheless used wherever a backslash is used, such as the [[Path (computing)|directory separator]] character (for example, in <code>C:¥</code>) and as the general [[Escape character|escape character]] (<code>¥n</code>).<ref name="kaplan" /> It is mapped onto the Unicode U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS (i.e. backslash),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT | title=CP932.TXT | publisher=Unicode Consortium}}</ref> while Unicode U+00A5 YEN SIGN is given a one-way "best fit" mapping to 0x5C in code page 932,<ref name="kaplan" /> and 0x5C is displayed as a backslash in Microsoft's documentation for code page 932,<ref name="msrefrender">{{cite web | url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc194889.aspx | title=Lead byte NULL — Code page 932 | publisher=Microsoft}}</ref> essentially making it a backslash given the appearance of a yen sign by localized fonts. The [[Finance:Won sign|won sign]] has similar issues in Korean versions of Windows. 

===IBM EBCDIC===
IBM's Code page 437 used code point {{code|9D}} for the ¥ and this encoding was also used by several other computer systems. The ¥ is assigned code point B2 in EBCDIC 500 and many other EBCDIC code pages.

== Chinese IME ==
Under Chinese [[Pinyin]] input method editors (IMEs) such as those from [[Company:Microsoft|Microsoft]] or Sogou.com, typing {{keypress|$}} displays the full-width character {{char|￥}}, which is different from half-width {{char|¥}} used in Japanese IMEs.

== 円 and 元 ==
The Japanese [[Social:Kanji|kanji]] {{char|円}} (yen) and  Chinese character {{char|元}} (yuan) are more commonly used when writing in Japanese and Chinese.

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== References ==
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