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¥

¥ 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 (should NOT be pronounced as "Yu-An", the "u" and "a" should be pronounced together) 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 the Japanese editions 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. Although this symbol is unavailable on many keyboards, it can be typed by holding the ALT key down and typing the numbers 0165 on the right side of the keyboard and releasing the ALT key. It can also be typed by holding down the ALT key, and typing the numbers 157 on the right side of the keyboard, and releasing the ALT key, or by holding down the ALT key and typing the numbers 02213 on the right side of the keyboard and then releasing the ALT key.

On Mac OS X using English, the yen sign can be entered by holding down the Option key and typing the letter Y.

In HTML, it is rendered with ¥

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