YEN SIGN
- Category
- Sc — Currency Symbol
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Script
- Common
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 165
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent YEN SIGN in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 A5 | 194 165 | 2 |
| UTF-16 LE | A5 00 | 165 0 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 00 A5 | 0 165 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | A5 00 00 00 | 165 0 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 00 A5 | 0 0 0 165 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | A5 | 165 | 1 |
| Windows-1252 | A5 | 165 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | not supported | ||
| KOI8-R | not supported | ||
| Shift-JIS | 5C | 92 | 1 |
| EUC-JP | 5C | 92 | 1 |
| GBK | not supported | ||
| Big5 | A2 44 | 162 68 | 2 |
Escape Sequences
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View U+00A5 on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- ET — European Terminator