Currency sign (¤)
The currency sign (¤) stands for money in general: a generic or unknown currency, where no particular currency’s sign is meant.
How to read it
Unicode names the character CURRENCY SIGN (U+00A4) and describes it as a generic or unknown currency. The character-code standard ECMA-6, which corresponds to ISO 646, allows either the dollar sign or the currency sign at one code position, 2/4, and says that unless the sender and recipient agree otherwise, £, $ and ¤ do not stand for the currency of any particular country.
Also searched as: ¤, ¤ meaning, circle with four lines symbol, currency sign, currency sign symbol, generic currency sign.
These describe what each sign means and which currency uses it. They are not financial advice, and they give no prices or exchange rates.
The ISO code for no currency
The ISO 4217 list has a code for the same idea: XXX, for transactions where no currency is involved.
Read next
- Next in Currency symbolsISO 4217 currency codes (USD, EUR, GBP)ISO 4217 is the international standard of three-letter currency codes: USD is the US dollar, EUR the euro, GBP the pound sterling. The first two letters usually name the country and the third the currency.
- The same shape in African flagsFlag of EthiopiaEthiopia’s flag is green, yellow and red in equal horizontal stripes with a blue disc in the centre holding a yellow star of equal lines with yellow rays. Ethiopia’s Flag Proclamation makes the green labour, fertility and development, the yellow hope, justice and equality, and the red sacrifice and heroism for freedom and equality; the blue disc is peace and the star the unity of Ethiopia’s nations, nationalities and peoples.
More currency symbols
The same shape elsewhere
Browse symbols drawn with circles or lines.
Sources
- C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement: Range 0080–00FF (code chart), The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0, Unicode Consortium, Latin-1 Supplement, 00A4
- Standard ECMA-6: 7-Bit Coded Character Set, 6th Edition, ECMA-6, December 1991 (corresponds to ISO 646, 3rd edition, 1991), Ecma International, Brief History; 6.4.2; Annex C
- ISO 4217 currency code list (List One), Current currency and funds code list, SIX Financial Information (ISO 4217 Maintenance Agency), Fund codes (ZZ07)
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