Currency Symbols

Entities Currency Symbols

Currency symbols are characters used to identify monetary units such as dollars, euros, pounds, yen, rupees, and won. Unicode provides currency signs for currencies used throughout the world, and HTML character references can be used to display these symbols in webpages.

Some currency symbols have named HTML character references, while others are represented using decimal or hexadecimal numeric character references. In a UTF-8 document, currency symbols can also be entered directly into the HTML source.

Common Currency Symbols

The following table lists commonly used currency symbols and their HTML character references. Where a named character reference is available, it is shown along with its decimal and hexadecimal forms.

Additional Currency Symbols

Unicode includes additional currency signs representing current, historical, and regional monetary units. These symbols can be displayed with numeric HTML character references.

Using Currency Symbols in HTML

Currency symbols can be entered directly in a UTF-8 document or written with named or numeric character references. A character reference displays the symbol only; it does not identify an amount's currency or perform currency conversion.

<p>Price: &dollar;25.00</p>
<p>Price: &euro;25.00</p>
<p>Price: &pound;25.00</p>
<p>Price: &#8377;25.00</p>