Currency sign facts for kids
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$00). The usage of many European countries, such as France, Germany, Scandinavian countries, is to place the symbol after the amount 20,50 €.
List of presently used currency symbols
| Symbol | Uses | Notes |
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| ¤ | General currency sign | This is used when the correct symbol for the currency is not available |
| ؋ | Afghan afghani | |
| Ar | Malagasy ariary | |
| ₿ | Bitcoin | This symbol’s proper Unicode value is U+20BF. Before its introduction, the capital letter B with stroke and the baht symbol, among other conventions, were used. |
| ฿ | Thai baht | |
| B/. | Panamanian balboa | |
| Br | Ethiopian birr Belarusian ruble |
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| Bs. | Venezuelan bolívar Bolivian boliviano |
Bolívar sometimes Bs.F. |
| Bs.F. | Venezuelan bolívar variant | Usually Bs. |
| GH₵ | Ghana cedi | |
| ¢ | cent, centavo, &c. | A centesimal subdivision of currencies such as the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso. (See article.) See also c |
| c | cent &c. variant | Preferred by currencies such as the Australian, New Zealand, South African cents; the West African CFA centime; and the divisions of the euro. See also ¢ |
| Ch. | Bhutanese chhertum | A centesimal division of the ngultrum. |
| ₡ | Costa Rican colón, symbol was also used for the Salvadoran colón. | The Salvadoran colón was discontinued in 2001 and it was replaced by the US dollar. |
| C$ | Nicaraguan córdoba | |
| D | Gambian dalasi | |
| ден | Macedonian denar | Latin form: DEN |
| 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 | |
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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) |
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| 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 |
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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. |
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Turkish lira | |
| M | Lesotho loti | Symbol based on plural form "maloti". The one-loti note employs the currency symbol L |
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Azerbaijani manat | Also m. and man. Unicode: Error using : Input "20BC" is not a hexadecimal value. (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 paʻanga | |
| MOP$ | Macanese pataca | Also 圓 and 元 |
| ₱ | Philippine peso | Also ₱, 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: |
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Iranian rial | Unicode: Error using : Input "FDFC" is not a hexadecimal value. |
| 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. |
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Pridnestrovie ruble | |
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Russian ruble | Unicode: Error using : Input "20BD" is not a hexadecimal value. |
| Rf. | Maldivian rufiyaa | Also MRf., MVR and .ރ |
| ₹ | Indian rupee | Previously ₨ or Re (before 15 July 2010). Unicode: Error using : Input "20B9" is not a hexadecimal value. |
| ₨ | 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 $ |
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Kazakhstani tenge | Error using : Input "20B8" is not a hexadecimal value. (may display incorrectly) |
| ₮ | Mongolian tögrög | |
| VT | Vanuatu vatu | |
| ₩ | North Korean won South Korean won |
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| ¥ | 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+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) |
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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) |
See also
In Spanish: Símbolo monetario para niños
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