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Description[edit]
An S-shape with one (or, in some typefaces, two) vertical line crossing it completely. See for the usage with explicitly two lines.
Etymology[edit]
$ 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[edit]
$
- money
- 1954, Donald's Diary (in English):
- Uncle Ray's Loans
We lend $$$
- (used everywhere except in the Philippines) peso
- dollar
- 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
- Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million[sic] $$$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
- 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
- escudo
- (computing) cache
- 2010 Fall, U Penn CIS501 lecture notes[2]:
- How to provide additional D$ bandwidth?
- 2010 Fall, U Penn CIS501 lecture notes[2]:
Letter[edit]
$
- 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[edit]
$
- The symbol for the dollar and peso.
- The unofficial symbol for the escudo.
- (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.
Usage notes[edit]
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[edit]
- English: $DEITY
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See also[edit]
Currency signs
- ؋ – afghani
- ฿ – baht
- ₿ – bitcoin
- ¢ – cent
- ₡ – colón
- ₵ – cedi
– cifrão
- 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
- ₽ – ruble
- ₨ – rupee
- ௹ – rupee
- ₹ – Indian rupee
- ૱ – rupee (in Gujarat)
- ₪ – new shekel
- ⃀ – som
- ৲ or ৳ – taka
- ₸ – tenge
- ₮ – tugrik, tether
- ₩ – won
- ¥ – yen/yuan
Formerly used currency signs
References[edit]
- ^ A history of mathematical notations, Florian Cajori, 1993
- ^ “US Bureau of Engraving and Printing”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], accessed 22 May 2009, archived from the original on 2007-09-28
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