Currency symbol

A **currency symbol** is a short symbol used as for a currency's name.

When writing currency amounts the location of the symbol varies by currency. Many currencies in the English-speaking world and Latin America, place it before the amount (e.g., R$50,00). The Cape Verdean escudo places its symbol in the decimal separator position (i.e., 20$00). The usage of many European countries, such as France, Germany, Scandinavian countries, is to place the symbol after the amount 20,50 €.

## List of presently used currency symbols

|Symbol|Uses|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- |
|¤|General currency sign|_This is used when the correct symbol for the currency is not available_|
|؋|Afghan afghani||
|Ar|Malagasy ariary||
|฿|Thai baht||
|B/.|Panamanian balboa||
|Br|Ethiopian birr Belarusian ruble ||||
|Bs.|Venezuelan bolívar Bolivian boliviano || _Bolívar sometimes_ Bs.F.||
|Bs.F.|Venezuelan bolívar variant|_Usually_ Bs.|
|GH₵|Ghana cedi||
|¢|cent, centavo, &c.|_A centesimal subdivision of currencies such as the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso. (See article.)_ _See also_ c|
|c|cent &c. variant|_Preferred by currencies such as the Australian, New Zealand, South African cents; the West African CFA centime; and the divisions of the euro._ _See also_ ¢|
|Ch.|Bhutanese chhertum|_A centesimal division of the ngultrum._|
|₡|Costa Rican colón, symbol was also used for the Salvadoran colón.|The Salvadoran colón was discontinued in 2001 and it was replaced by the US dollar.|
|C$|Nicaraguan córdoba||
|D|Gambian dalasi||
|ден|Macedonian denar|_Latin form:_ <small>DEN</small>|
|دج|Algerian dinar|_Latin form:_ DA|
|.د.ب|Bahraini dinar|_Latin form:_ BD|
|د.ع|Iraqi dinar||
|JD|Jordanian dinar||
|د.ك|Kuwaiti dinar|_Latin form:_ K.D.|
|ل.د|Libyan dinar|_Latin form:_ LD|
|дин|Serbian dinar|_Latin form: din._|
|د.ت|Tunisian dinar|_Latin form:_ DT|
|د.م.|Moroccan dirham|_Latin forms:_ DH _or_ Dhs|
|د.إ|United Arab Emirates dirham|_Latin forms:_ DH _or_ Dhs|
|Db|São Tomé and Príncipe dobra||
|$|Australian (A$), Bahamian (B$), Barbadian (Bds$), Belizean (BZ$), Bermudian (BD$), Brunei (B$), Canadian (Can$), Cayman Islands (CI$), East Caribbean (EC$), Fiji (FJ$), Guyanese (G$), Hong Kong (HK$/元/圓), Jamaican (J$), Kiribati, Liberian (L$), Linden Dollar (Second Life virtual world) (L$ or LD$), Namibian (N$), New Zealand (NZ$), Singaporean (S$), Solomon Islands (SI$), Surinamese (SRD), Taiwanese (NT$/元/圓), Trinidad and Tobago (TT$), Tuvaluan, United States (US$), and Zimbabwean (Z$) dollars Argentine, Chilean (CLP$), Colombian (COL$), Cuban ($MN), Cuban convertible (CUC$), Dominican (RD$), Mexican (Mex$), and Uruguayan ($U) pesos|| _May appear with either one or two bars_ ()_, which share the same Unicode space. Kiribati and Tuvalu's dollars are pegged 1:1 with the Australian dollar. Brunei's dollar is pegged 1:1 with the Singaporean dollar._ _See also_ C$ _and_ MOP$ _and_ R$ _and_ T$ _and_ WS$ Unicode: See $ for variants.||
|₫|Vietnamese đồng||
||Armenian dram||
|Esc|Cape Verdean escudo|_Also the double-barred dollar sign (cifrão)_:|
|€|Euro|_In addition to the members of the eurozone, the Vatican, San Marino, Monaco and Andorra have been granted issuing rights for coinage but not banknotes._|
|ƒ|Aruban florin (Afl.) Netherlands Antillean guilder (NAƒ) ||||
|Ft|Hungarian forint||
|FBu|Burundian franc||
|FCFA|Central African CFA franc|_Pegged 1:1 with West African CFA franc_|
|CFA|West African CFA franc|_Pegged 1:1 with Central African CFA franc_|
|Fr|Comorian (CF), Congolese (CF, FC), Djiboutian (Fdj/DF), Guinean (FG/GFr) and Swiss (SFr) francs|_Also_ F. The character ₣, representing an F with a double bar, proposed as a symbol for the French Franc by Édouard Balladur in 1988 was never adopted, it is represented by a ligature Fr in some fonts.|
|FRw|Rwandan franc|_Possibly also_ RF _and_ RFr|
|G|Haitian gourde||
|gr|Polish grosz|_A centesimal division of the złoty_|
|₲|Paraguayan guaraní|_Or_|
|h|Czech haléř|_A centesimal division of the koruna_|
|₴|Ukrainian hryvnia||
|₭|Lao kip|_Or_ ₭N|
|Kč|Czech koruna||
|kr|Danish (Dkr) and Norwegian krones Swedish krona Faroese and Icelandic (Íkr) króna|| _Faroese króna pegged 1:1 with Danish krone_.||
|kn|Croatian kuna||
|MK|Malawian kwacha||
|ZK|Zambian kwacha||
|Kz|Angolan kwanza||
|K|Myanma kyat Papua New Guinean kina ||||
||Georgian lari||
|L|Albanian lek Honduran lempira || _Also used as the currency symbol for the Lesotho one-loti and the Swazi one-lilangeni note_ _Also uncommonly used for the pound sign_ £||
|Le|Sierra Leonean leone||
|лв|Bulgarian lev||
|E|Swazi lilangeni|_Symbol based on the plural form "emalangeni". The one-lilageni note employs the currency symbol_ L|
|lp|Croatian lipa|_A centesimal division of the kuna._|
||Turkish lira||
|M|Lesotho loti|_Symbol based on plural form "maloti". The one-loti note employs the currency symbol_ L|
||Azerbaijani manat|_Also_ m. _and_ man. Unicode:  (may display incorrectly)|
|KM|Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark|_Cyrillic form:_ КМ|
|MT|Mozambican metical|_Also_ MTn|
|₥|Mill, mil, &.c|_An uncommon millesimal subdivision of US dollars and other currencies. (See article.)_|
|Nfk|Eritrean nakfa|_Also_ Nfa|
|₦|Nigerian naira||
|Nu.|Bhutanese ngultrum||
|UM|Mauritanian ouguiya||
|T$|Tongan pa****anga||
|MOP$|Macanese pataca|_Also_ 圓 _and_ 元|
|₱|Philippine peso|_Also_ <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">₱</span>, PHP, _and_ P|
|Pt.|Egyptian piastre|_A centesimal division of the Egyptian pound._|
|£|British, Falkland Islands (FK£), Gibraltar, Manx (M£), St. Helena|_Also_ ₤ _and_ L, all pegged 1:1 to GBP|
|ج.م.|Egyptian pound|_Latin:_ L.E. _Rarely_ £E _or_ E£|
|LL|Lebanese pound||
|LS|Syrian pound||
|P|Botswana pula||
|Q|Guatemalan quetzal||
|q|Albanian qindarkë|_A centesimal division of the lek._|
|R|South African rand|_Also sometimes Russian &c. rubles_|
|R$|Brazilian real|_The $ is sometimes informally written with a double bar like a double-barred dollar sign_:|
||Iranian rial|Unicode:|
|ر.ع.|Omani rial||
|ر.ق|Qatari riyal|_Latin:_ QR|
|ر.س|Saudi riyal|_Latin:_ SR. _Also:_ ریال|
|៛|Cambodian riel||
|RM|Malaysian ringgit||
|p|British &c. pennies|_The penny is now a centesimal division of the pound._|
||Pridnestrovie ruble||
||Russian ruble|Unicode:|
|Rf.|Maldivian rufiyaa|_Also_ MRf., MVR _and_ .ރ|
|₹|Indian rupee|_Previously ₨ or Re (before 15 July 2010)._ Unicode:|
|₨|Mauritian, Nepalese (N₨/रू.), Pakistani and Sri Lankan (SLRs/රු) rupees||
|SRe|Seychellois rupee|_Also_ SR|
|Rp|Indonesian rupiah||
|₪|Israeli new shekel||
|Tsh|Tanzanian shilling|_Also_ TSh|
|Ksh|Kenyan shilling|_Also_ KSh|
|Sh.So.|Somali shilling||
|USh|Ugandan shilling||
|S/|Peruvian sol||
|SDR|Special drawing rights||
|сом|Kyrgyzstani som||
|৳|Bangladeshi Taka|_Also_ Tk|
|WS$|Samoan tālā|_Symbol based on previous name "West Samoan tala". Also_ T _and_ ST. _See also_ $|
||Kazakhstani tenge|(may display incorrectly)|
|₮|Mongolian tögrög||
|VT|Vanuatu vatu||
|₩|North Korean won South Korean won||
|¥|Japanese yen (円/圓) Chinese Renminbi yuan (元/圆) || _Used with one and two crossbars._ 円 (_en_, lit. "circle") is frequently used in Japan colloquially. 元 is also used in reference to the Macanese pataca and Hong Kong and Taiwanese dollars. Unicode: U+00A5 ¥ YEN SIGN, U+FFE5 ￥ FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN||
|zł|Polish złoty||

## List of currency symbols no longer in use

|Symbol|Uses|
| --- | --- |
|₳|Argentine austral symbol|
|₢ Cr$|Brazilian cruzeiro symbol|
|₰|pfennig symbol of the German Mark (1875–1923) and the German Reichsmark (1923–1948)|
|DM|East German Deutsche Mark (east) symbol (1948–1964)|
|DM|West German and united German Deutsche Mark (west) symbol (1948–2001)|
|₯|Greek drachma symbol|
|₠|ECU symbol (not widely used, and now historical; replaced by the euro)|
|_ƒ_|Dutch gulden symbol, currently used in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba|
|Fr|franc symbol, used in France and other countries; in France an F with double bar (₣) was proposed in 1988 but never adopted|
|Kčs|Czechoslovak koruna symbol (1919–1993)|
|₤|lira symbol, formerly used in Italy, San Marino and Vatican City (although not as an official symbol), and sometimes in Malta|
|Lm|Maltese lira symbol|
|Ls|Latvian lats symbol (1922–2013)|
|Lt|Lithuanian litas symbol (1922–2014)|
|M|East German Mark der DDR symbol (1968–1990)|
|ℳ|German Mark symbol (1875–1923)|
|MDN|East German Mark der Deutschen Notenbank symbol (1964–1968)|
|mk|Finnish markka symbol (1860–2002)|
|PF|Philippine peso fuerte symbol (1852–1901)|
|₧|Spanish peseta symbol (1869–2002)|
|R or RD|Swedish riksdaler (1777–1873)|
|ℛℳ|German reichsmark symbol (1923–1948)|
||Portuguese escudo symbol (_cifrão_)|
|Sk|Slovak koruna (1993–2008)|
|₷|Spesmilo (1907 First World War) in the Esperanto movement|
|₶|Livre tournois symbol, used in medieval France|
|𐆖|Denarius used in Ancient Rome from 211 BC to the 3rd century AD|
|£2 10s 3d, £2 10/3, £2 10'3|The United Kingdom and  British Commonwealth countries, before decimalisation, used several recognised formats for amounts in pounds, shillings and Pence, all for the same amount. A hyphen or ASCII hyphen-minus was often used to indicate the absence of an amount e.g. 3/- or -/6|
|I/.|Peruvian inti (1985-1991)|