World Currency Symbols -
A currency sign is a graphic symbol used as a shorthand for a currency's name, especially in reference to amounts of money. They typically employ the first letter or character of the currency, sometimes with minor changes such as ligatures or overlaid vertical or horizontal bars. Today, ISO 4217 codes are used instead of currency signs for most official purposes though currency signs may be in common use in many other contexts. Few currencies in the world have no shorthand symbol at all.
Although many former currency signs were rendered obsolete by the adoption of the euro, having a new and unique currency sign — implementation of which requires the adoption of new unicode and type formats — has now become a status symbol for international currencies. The European Commission considers part of the success of the euro was the global recognition of the euro sign €. In 2009, India launched a public competition to replace the ₨ ligature it shared with neighboring countries.[1] It finalized its new currency symbol, ₹ (
) on 15 July 2010. It is a blend of the Latin letter 'R' with the Devanagari letter "र" (ra).
) on 15 July 2010. It is a blend of the Latin letter 'R' with the Devanagari letter "र" (ra).
| Notes | ||
|---|---|---|
| ¤ | Generic currency sign | Used when the correct sign is not available |
| ؋ | Afghan afghani | |
| Ar | Malagasy ariary[4] | |
| ฿ | 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 ¢ |
| ct | Lithuanian centas | A centesimal division of the litas |
| Ch. | Bhutanese chhertum | A centesimal division of the ngultrum. |
| ₡ | Costa Rican colón | Also used for the former Salvadoran colón, which was discontinued in 2001 in favor of the US dollar, but remains accepted as legal tender. |
| 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(CA$), Cayman Islands (CI$), East Caribbean (EC$), Fiji (FJ$), Guyanese (G$),[5] Hong Kong (HK$/元/圓),Jamaican (J$), Kiribati, Liberian (L$ or LD$), Namibian (N$), New Zealand (NZ$), Singaporean (S$), Soloman 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 Nicaraguan córdoba (C$) Brazilian real (R$) Tongan paʻanga | May appear with either one or two bars, both of which currently 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 MOP$ and WS$ |
| ₫ | Vietnamese đồng | |
 | Armenian dram | |
| Esc | Cape Verdean escudo | Also the double-barred dollar sign (cifrão):  |
| € | European euro | In addition to the members of the eurozone, the Vatican, San Marino, and Monaco have been granted issuing rights for coinage but not banknotes. |
| ƒ | Aruban florin (Afl.)[6] Netherlands Antillean guilder (NAƒ) | |
| Ft | Hungarian forint | |
| FBu | Burundian franc | |
| FCFA | Central African CFA franc | Also CFA[7] Pegged 1:1 with West African CFA franc |
| ₣ | Comorian (CF), Congolese (CF), Djiboutian (Fdj/DF), Guinean (FG/G₣) and Swiss (S₣) francs | Also F and Fr. |
| FRw | Rwandan franc[8] | Possibly also RF[9] and R₣[10] |
| CFA | West African CFA franc | Pegged 1:1 with Central African CFA franc |
| 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, ":-" is used as an alternative sign for the Swedish krona |
| kn | Croatian kuna | |
| MK | Malawian kwacha | |
| ZK | Zambian kwacha | |
| Kz | Angolan kwanza | |
| K | Myanma kyat Papua New Guinean kina | |
| ლ | Georgian lari | |
| Ls | Latvian lats | |
| L | Albanian lek Honduran lempira | Also used as the currency sign for the Lesotho one-loti and the Swazi one-lilangeni note Also uncommonly used for the pound sign £ |
| Le | Sierra Leonean leone | |
| E | Swazi lilangeni | Sign based on the plural form "emalangeni. " The one-lilageni note employs the currency sign L |
| lp | Croatian lipa | A centesimal division of the kuna. |
 | Turkish lira | |
| Lt | Lithuanian litas | |
| M | Lesotho loti | Sign based on plural form "maloti. " The one-loti note employs the currency sign L |
 | Azerbaijani manat | Also m. and man. |
| КМ | Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark | Latin form: KM |
| MT | Mozambican metical[11] | Also MTn |
| ₥ | Mill, mil, &.c | An uncommon millesimal subdivision of US dollars and other currencies. (See article.) |
| Nfk | Eritrean nakfa | Also Nfa[7] |
| ₦ | Nigerian naira | |
| Nu. | Bhutanese ngultrum | |
| UM | Mauritanian ouguiya[12] | |
| MOP$ | Macanese pataca | Also 圓 and 元 |
| ₱ | Philippine peso | Also P, PhP, and P |
| £ | British, Falkland Islands (FK£), Gibraltar, Lebanese (LL), Manx, St. Helena, Sudanese and Syrian (LS) pounds | Also ₤ and L |
| ج.م. | Egyptian pound | Latin: L.E. Rarely £E or E£ |
| P | Botswana pula | |
| Q | Guatemalan quetzal | |
| q | Albanian qindarkë | A centesimal division of the lek. |
| Pt. | Egyptian qirsh | A centesimal division of the Egyptian pound. |
| R | South African rand | Also sometimes Russian &c. rubles |
| R$ | Brazilian real | Also the double-barred dollar sign: |
| ريال | Iranian rial | Script for "rial," a currency name also used by other nations. |
| ر.ع. | Omani rial | |
| ر.ق | Qatari riyal | Latin: QR |
| ر.س | Saudi riyal | Latin: SR. Also: ریال |
| ៛ | Cambodian riel | |
| RM | Malaysian ringgit | |
| р. | British &c. pennies Transnistrian ruble | The penny is now a centesimal division of the pound. |
| Rf. | Maldivian rufiyaa | Also MRf., MVR and .ރ |
| ₹() | Indian rupee | Unicode: ₹ |
| ₨ | Mauritian,[13] Nepalese[14] (N₨/रू.), Pakistani and Sri Lankan (SLRs/රු) rupees | |
| SRe | Seychellois rupee[15] | Also SR |
| Rp | Indonesian rupiah | |
| s | Latvian santīms | A centesimal division of the lats. |
| ₪ | Israeli new shekel | |
| Ksh | Kenyan shilling | Also KSh |
| Sh.So. | Somali shilling[16] | |
| USh | Ugandan shilling | |
| S/. | Peruvian nuevo sol | |
| SDR | Special drawing rights | |
| лв | Bulgarian lev | |
| сом | Kyrgyzstani som | |
| ৳ | Bangladeshi Taka | Also Tk |
| WS$ | Samoan tālā | Sign based on previous name "West Samoan tala." Also T and ST. See also $ |
 | Kazakhstani tenge | Unicode: ₸ |
| ₮ | Mongolian tögrög | |
| VT | Vanuatu vatu[17] | |
| ₩ | North Korean and South Korean won | |
| ¥ | Japanese yen (円/圓) Chinese Renminbi yuan (元/圆) | Used with one and two crossbars. 元 is also used in reference to the Macanese pataca and Hong Kong and Taiwanese dollars. |
| zł | Polish złoty |