¥

¥9 Chinese price sticker

¥ is a currency sign used for the following currencies:

• Chinese yuan (CNY)
• Japanese yen (JPY)

The base unit of the two currencies above share the same Chinese character (圓/元/円), pronounced yuan in Mandarin Chinese and en in Standard Japanese. The symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a double stroke or, also commonly in Mainland China, with a single stroke. In Japanese edition of Microsoft operating systems, the yen sign in code page 932 character encoding has the same byte value as the backslash in ASCII. It is also used wherever a backslash is used, such as the directory separator character and the general escape character^[1], essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look, a peculiarity that stems from JIS X 0201.

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