U+FF04 "＄" Fullwidth Dollar Sign Unicode Character

U+FF04 "＄" Fullwidth Dollar Sign is a typographic variant of the standard dollar sign ($) designed for use in East Asian scripts, where it occupies the same width as a fullwidth CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character. Unlike the regular halfwidth dollar sign, which fits within a narrower space, this version appears as a wider, double width symbol to align properly with other fullwidth characters in monospaced or ideographic text environments. It is commonly employed in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean contexts when formatting monetary values to maintain visual consistency across mixed width text or tables.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FF04
Version Added	1.1
Name	Fullwidth Dollar Sign
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator
Decomposition Type	Wide
Decomposition Mapping	"$" U+0024 Dollar Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	＄
HTML Hex Encoding	＄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBC 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFF04
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FF04
C/C++/Java Escape	\uff04

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Prefix Numeric
East Asian Width	Fullwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"$" U+0024 Dollar Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold	"$" U+0024 Dollar Sign
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other