Currency Symbols with HTML Codes

About Currency Symbols and Their HTML Codes

What is a currency symbol?

A currency symbol is a sign or abbreviation for a unit of money, such as € for the euro.

Unicode 18.0 classifies 67 characters as currency signs, and 37 of them sit in its Currency Symbols block, U+20A0 to U+20CF. Many currencies have no sign of their own and are written with a code such as CHF or letters such as Rs.

On this page, a sign is one Unicode character. A symbol is the form the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) uses to write a currency, such as CA$ for the Canadian dollar.

• Six named entities. Only six currency signs have entity names in HTML: $, ¢, £, ¤, ¥ and €.
• Three new signs. Unicode 18.0, announced on September 16, 2026, added the rufiyaa sign U+20C2, the UAE dirham sign U+20C3 and the Omani rial sign U+20C4.
• Shared signs. ¥ stands for both the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, and ₩ for both the South Korean and the North Korean won.
• Codes as symbols. CLDR's English data uses the plain ISO 4217 code as the symbol for 133 of the 155 currencies in our table, such as CHF for the Swiss franc.

How do you write a currency symbol in HTML?

Type the sign itself on a page saved as UTF-8.

UTF-8 can store every Unicode character, so ₹, ₺ and ₿ need no escaping once the page declares <meta charset="utf-8">. If your editor or database might mangle a sign, write a character reference instead.

The Indian rupee sign ₹ has no named entity, so you write it as ₹ in decimal or ₹ in hex. Both turn into ₹ when the browser reads the page.

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HTML: ₹ or ₹
CSS: content: "\20B9";
JavaScript: '\u20B9'

In CSS, put the escape \20B9 inside a quoted string, usually the content value of a ::before or ::after rule. In JavaScript, \u20B9 works in any string, and the \u{20B9} form needs ES2015 or later.

Our HTML entity encoder converts a whole block of text at once.

Which currency signs have HTML entity names?

Six currency signs have named character references in the HTML standard.

Every other currency sign, such as ₹, ₩ or ₿, has no entity name. To escape one, use a numeric reference such as ₩ for ₩. Our HTML entities reference covers other special characters.

Browsers usually recognize &cent, &pound, &curren and &yen without the semicolon, but the HTML standard counts that as a parse error, so always write the semicolon.

How do you type the euro, pound and Indian rupee signs?

The shortcut for each sign depends on your keyboard layout.

U.S. and U.K. keyboards put $ on Shift+4. The euro, pound, yen and cent signs are typed with an Alt code on Windows or the Option key on a Mac, unless your layout puts the sign on a key, such as AltGr+4 for € on a U.K. keyboard.

On Windows, the English (India) layout types the Indian rupee sign with AltGr+4. The U.S. and British Mac layouts have no key for it, so you insert it from the Character Viewer.

Alt codes need the numeric keypad with Num Lock on. The four-digit codes come from Windows-1252, the code page behind English and Western European versions of Windows. The layout keys come from the Windows and Mac keyboard files in Unicode CLDR 43, the last CLDR release to include them.

In Word for Windows, type a sign's code point, such as 20B9, and press Alt+X to turn it into the sign. On a Mac, Control+Command+Space opens the Character Viewer, where you can search for a sign by name.

Does the currency symbol go before or after the price?

The symbol's position depends on the locale, not the currency.

A locale is a language plus a region. The table below shows the same 1,234.50 euros in six locales. Spanish in Spain leaves out the thousands separator in four-digit amounts.

JavaScript's Intl.NumberFormat applies each locale's rules when you pass style: 'currency' and a currency code such as 'EUR'. Our price formatter runs the same call for any currency and locale.

Decimal places vary too. ISO 4217 gives the yen and the South Korean won no decimal places, and the Kuwaiti, Bahraini and Jordanian dinars three.

The JavaScript internationalization standard, ECMA-402, lets each browser choose the default number of decimals for a currency. Chrome follows CLDR, which differs from ISO 4217 for 16 currencies. That is why Chrome formats the Iraqi dinar with no decimals by default, where ISO 4217 gives three.

Where does this data come from?

The signs come from Unicode, the currency codes from ISO 4217 and the symbols from Unicode CLDR.

The signs, names and code points are from Unicode 18.0. The currency list is ISO 4217 as published by SIX, its maintenance agency, on September 17, 2026, and the symbols are from Unicode CLDR 48.2.

The six example prices come from Intl.NumberFormat with CLDR 48 data. Our price formatter uses your browser's built-in locale data, which may be a different CLDR version, so its output can differ between browsers.

Which currency signs get mixed up?

Each pair below looks alike or shares a history.

• Using ₨ for the Indian rupee. Unicode's notes describe using ₨ (U+20A8) in India as an unofficial legacy practice. The official sign is ₹ (U+20B9).
• Using ¢ for the Ghanaian cedi. The cedi has its own sign, ₵ (U+20B5), and CLDR writes the cedi as GH₵ in Ghanaian English.
• Using ₠ in place of €. ₠ (U+20A0) is the old euro-currency sign, meant for the European Currency Unit (ECU). Unicode notes that it is not the euro sign.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you write the Indian rupee sign ₹ in HTML?

Write ₹ or ₹, because ₹ has no named entity. On a page saved as UTF-8, you can also type ₹ directly.

What is the HTML entity for the euro sign?

The named entity is €. The numeric references € and € produce the same € sign.

Which currency uses ¥?

Both the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan use ¥, which Unicode also calls the yuan sign. CLDR's English data writes the yuan as CN¥ and the yen as ¥.

What is the newest currency sign in Unicode?

Unicode 18.0 added three in 2026, for the Maldivian rufiyaa, the UAE dirham and the Omani rial. They are U+20C2, U+20C3 and U+20C4, and devices without an updated font may show them as an empty box.

Why does a currency sign show up as a box?

A box usually means the device has no font that can draw that character. Copying still pastes the right character, which displays on any device with a font that includes it.

What does the ¤ sign mean?

Unicode's notes describe ¤ (U+00A4) as a sign for a generic or unknown currency.

Does $ have one stroke or two?

Both shapes are the same character, U+0024. Unicode says it may be drawn with one or two vertical bars, so the font decides which you see.