$

See also: Appendix:Variations of "s", ＄, ﹩, , Ֆ, ֆ, ₴, and 弗

also $
$ U+0024, $
DOLLAR SIGN
← #
[U+0023] 		Basic Latin % →
[U+0025]

💲 U+1F4B2, 💲
HEAVY DOLLAR SIGN
← 💱
[U+1F4B1] 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 💳 →
[U+1F4B3]
﹩ U+FE69, ﹩
SMALL DOLLAR SIGN
← ﹨
[U+FE68] 		Small Form Variants ﹪ →
[U+FE6A]
＄ U+FF04, ＄
FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SIGN
← ＃
[U+FF03] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ％ →
[U+FF05]

Translingual

Alternative forms

Description

An S-shape with one (or, in some typefaces, two; see for the usage with explicitly two lines) vertical line crossing it completely.

Etymology

$ appears to have evolved ca 1775 in the United States from a common abbreviation for pesos, also known as piastres or pieces of eight, a P/raised-S ligature PS that passed through a stage resembling ֆ.[1] It was used in the US before the adoption of the dollar in 1785.[2]

(computing): This sense is the result of homophony between English cache and cash, dollars being a form of cash.

Noun

$

  1. money
  2. (used everywhere except in the Philippines) peso
  3. dollar
    • 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
      Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million[sic] $$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
  4. escudo
  5. (computing) cache
    • 2010 Fall, U Penn CIS501 lecture notes:
      How to provide additional D$ bandwidth?

Letter

$

  1. A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or (perceived) greedy business practices.
    "Micro$oft Window$"
    • 2015, "Pixtopia", season 1, episode 6b of Star vs. the Forces of Evil
      [the text below is written on-screen in large letters, once Marco reveals his "emergency cash stash"]
      Marco'$ emergency ca$h $ta$h

Symbol

$

  1. The symbol for the dollar and peso.
  2. The unofficial symbol for the escudo.
  3. (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.

Usage notes

When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies in English, despite being pronounced second. For example, “$1” is read as “one dollar”, not “dollar one” unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: “1 $”, “2,50 $”.

When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. The official symbol for the escudo is (with two bars), but that form is unified with the single-bar form in Unicode. A single-bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.

Derived terms

See also

Currency signs

  • ؋‎ – afghani
  • ฿ – baht
  • ₿ – bitcoin
  • ¢ – cent
  • ₡ – colón
  • ₵ – cedi
  • – cifrão
  • ⃀ - som
  • Ð – dogecoin
  • $ – dollar sign
  • ₫ – dong
  • ֏ – dram
  • Ξ – ether
  • € – euro
  • ƒ – florin/guilder/gulden
  • ₲ – guarani
  • ₴ – hryvnia
  • ₭ – kip
  • ₾ – lari
  • ₺ – Turkish lira
  • ₼ – manat
  • ₥ – mill
  • ₦ – naira
  • ₱ – Philippine peso
  • £ or ₤ – pound/lira
  • ﷼‎ – rial/riyal
  • ៛ – riel
  • ރ – rufiyaa
  • ₽ – rouble
  • ₨ – rupee
  • ௹ – rupee
  • ₹ – Indian rupee
  • ৲ or ৳ – taka
  • ૱ – rupee (in Gujarat)
  • ₪ – new shekel
  • ₸ – tenge
  • ₮ – tugrik, tether
  • ₩ – won
  • ¥ – yen/yuan

Formerly used currency signs

  • 𐆚 – as
  • ₳ – austral
  • ₠ – ECU (European Currency Unit)
  • ₢$ – cruzeiro
  • 𐆖 – denarius
  • ₯ – drachma
  • ₣ – French franc
  • ₶ – livre tournois
  • ℳ – mark
  • ₧ – peseta
  • ₰ – pfennig
  • ₷ – spesmilo
  • – old Israeli shekel

References
  1. A history of mathematical notations, Florian Cajori, 1993
  2. “US Bureau of Engraving and Printing”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 22 May 2009, archived from the original on 2007-09-28
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