U+FFE5 "￥" Fullwidth Yen Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
￥
U+FFE5 "￥" Fullwidth Yen Sign is a variant of the standard yen or yuan sign (¥) that occupies a full character width, making it suitable for use in East Asian text environments where characters are traditionally monospaced and aligned within a square grid. It represents the currency of Japan and, in some contexts, the Chinese yuan renminbi, though the latter is more commonly denoted with the similar sign ¥. This fullwidth version ensures consistent vertical and horizontal alignment when mixed with other fullwidth characters, such as those in CJK scripts, and is encoded in the Unicode standard specifically to support legacy encodings like Shift JIS and compatibility with East Asian typographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFE5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Yen 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+00A5 Yen Sign |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffe5 |
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+00A5 Yen Sign |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "¥" U+00A5 Yen 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 |