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¥

Yen Yuan symbol

Type :jpy: · Currency

What ¥ is for

Serves both the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, which is why the name carries two currencies. China also writes the yuan as 元 or 圆 in domestic contexts, with this sign appearing mainly in international pricing.

How to type ¥

The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With Emoji Anywhere installed you can skip all of them and type :jpy: in any text field instead, which is the same on every platform.

macOS

Option + Y

Windows

Alt + 0165

Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.

Shortcodes

:jpy: :yen_yuan:

On the web

HTML ¥

Unicode U+00A5

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