About Currency Symbols
A currency sign is only useful if it is the right one, and most of these are not on a standard keyboard, which is how the wrong sign ends up in a price. This page identifies each character and the currency it denotes. All sixteen are plain text that takes the colour and size of the words around it, so they drop into a sentence without looking pasted in.
What Each Sign Denotes
€ euro. £ pound — sterling most commonly, though several other pound currencies share the sign. ₹ Indian rupee. ₩ Korean won. ₽ Russian ruble. ฿ Thai baht. ₺ Turkish lira. ₴ Ukrainian hryvnia.
₦ Nigerian naira. ₱ Philippine peso. ₫ Vietnamese dong. ₡ the colón, used in Costa Rica. ₲ Paraguayan guaraní. ¢ is the cent — a fraction of a unit rather than a currency in its own right.
Two Signs Are Shared
¥ is used for both the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan. The sign alone does not distinguish them, which is why prices in international contexts are usually written with a currency code — JPY or CNY — rather than relying on the symbol.
$ is shared even more widely. It denotes the US dollar, the Canadian and Australian dollars, and a long list of pesos and other dollars. It is also the one character here that is plain ASCII, U+0024, already present on every keyboard — it is included for completeness rather than because it is hard to type.
Placement and Rendering
Where the sign goes is a convention of the language, not of the character. English writes $10 and €10 with the sign leading; several European conventions place it after the amount, and some currencies conventionally follow the number regardless of language. The character does not enforce either.
Font coverage is good for the older signs — $ ¢ £ ¥ have been encoded for decades — and reasonable for the newer additions like ₺, ₽ and ₹, which arrived in later Unicode versions and may be missing from an unusually old font. The mathematical symbols cover the other everyday case where the character you need is not on the keyboard.