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Euro Sign vs Yen Sign

Euro Sign
20AC
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¥
Yen Sign
00A5
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VS

Property Comparison

Property € 20AC ¥ 00A5
Name Euro Sign Yen Sign
Category Currency Signs Currency Signs
Block Currency Symbols Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Currency Symbol (Sc) Currency Symbol (Sc)
Bidirectional ET ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 20AC 00A5
Unicode U+20AC U+00A5
HTML Decimal € ¥
HTML Hex € ¥
CSS \20AC \00A5
JavaScript \u{20AC} \u{A5}
Python \u20ac \u00a5
UTF-8 e2 82 ac c2 a5

How to Distinguish

Both Euro Sign and Yen Sign are in the Currency Signs category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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