dollar sign
Sign in to saveAlso known as peso sign, $, cifrao sign
monetary symbol used in many national currencies
Key facts
- Other names
- Peso sign
- In unicode
- U+0024 $ DOLLAR SIGN ( & dollar; )
- Currency
- Many (see dollar , peso )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- currency sign
- Based on
- S/s
- Image
- Dollar Sign.svg
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- code
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- different from
- S/s
- Unicode character
- ﹩
- Commons category
- Dollar sign
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Encyclopedic overview
The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital ⟨S⟩ crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in the Portuguese language.
The sign is also used in several compound currency symbols, such as the Brazilian real (R$) and the United States dollar (US$): in local use, the nationality prefix is usually omitted. In countries that have other currency symbols, the US dollar is often assumed and the "US" prefix omitted.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dollar sign” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.