Fullwidth Yen Sign

U+FFE5

Fullwidth Yen Sign is the Unicode character ¥ at codepoint U+FFE5 in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
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CSS (\xxxx)
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How to Use Fullwidth Yen Sign

To use the Fullwidth Yen Sign symbol (¥) in HTML, insert the entity ¥ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ¥ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\FFE5';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\uFFE5' evaluates to ¥. In Python source, write '\uFFE5'.

The character encodes to EF BF A5 as UTF-8 bytes and FFE5 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 65509.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 4 May 2026