Pound Sign vs Yen Sign
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Property Comparison
| Property | £ 00A3 | ¥ 00A5 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Pound Sign | Yen Sign |
| Category | Currency Signs | Currency Signs |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Currency Symbol (Sc) | Currency Symbol (Sc) |
| Bidirectional | ET | ET |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 00A3 | 00A5 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+00A3 | U+00A5 |
| HTML Decimal | £ | ¥ |
| HTML Hex | £ | ¥ |
| CSS | \00A3 | \00A5 |
| JavaScript | \u{A3} | \u{A5} |
| Python | \u00a3 | \u00a5 |
| UTF-8 | c2 a3 | c2 a5 |
How to Distinguish
Both Pound Sign and Yen Sign belong to the Currency Signs category and the Latin-1 Supplement block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.