$

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

$	U+0024, $ DOLLAR SIGN

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[U+0023]

Basic Latin

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[U+0025]

Character variations

Text style

Emoji style

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Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.

💲	U+1F4B2, 💲 HEAVY DOLLAR SIGN

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[U+1F4B1]

Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

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[U+1F4B3]

﹩	U+FE69, ﹩ SMALL DOLLAR SIGN

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[U+FE68]

Small Form Variants

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[U+FE6A]

＄	U+FF04, ＄ FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SIGN

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[U+FF03]

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

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[U+FF05]

Translingual

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Dollar sign

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Description

An S-shape with one or, in some typefaces, two vertical lines crossing it completely. See for the usage with explicitly two lines.

Etymology

Derived from Spanish PS, initialism of pesos.^[1]

The "computing" sense is the result of homophony between English cache and cash, dollars being a form of cash.

Noun

$

money
- 1954, Donald's Diary (in English):
  Uncle Ray's Loans / We lend $$$
1. various currencies called dollar
  - 1974 September 18, Earl Wilson, “Alive & Well in Show Biz”, in The Press, Atlantic City final edition (in English), Atlantic City, N.J., →OCLC, page 35, column 2:
    PRODUCER DAVID MERRICK recently sued a telecastress and her stations for several million $ for saying that big stars wouldn’t work for him . . .
  - 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
    Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million^[sic] $$$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
2. peso
3. escudo
4. pataca
5. milreis
(computing) cache
- 2010, CIS501 lecture notes‎^[2] (in English), University of Pennsylvania:
  How to provide additional D$ bandwidth?

Derived terms

money

$$$ (“(rating) expensive”)
$$$ (“large amount of money”) (English)
O$P$ (“owe money, pay money”) (English)

cache

D$ (“data cache”) (English)
I$ (“instruction cache”) (English)

Letter

$

A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or perceived greed in business practices.
Micro$oft Window$
- 1971 February 26, “Motor City: March Special” (advertisement), in The Daily Herald-Tribune, volume 58, number 168 (in English), Grande Prairie: Bowes Publishers Limited, After Hours, page 2:
  BE SAFE - BE SURE ¶ Come in NOW and $AVE
- 1992, Michael Rumaker, To Kill a Cardinal (in English), [Rocky Mount, N.C.]: Arthur Mann Kaye, →ISBN, page 37:
  While shrilly blowing whistles and setting off marine fog horns, they began scattering queer—as in “queer-as-a-three-dollar-bill”—money, phony 100s, 50s and 10s created by the activist artists group Gran Fury, down onto the floor of The Exchange, the backs of the bills reading: FUCK YOUR PROFITEERING. PEOPLE ARE DYING WHILE YOU PLAY BUSINESS. AID$ NOW.
- 1992 May 6, The Hamilton Spectator (in English), Hamilton, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C1, column 6:
  BEST BUY$
- 2015, “Pixtopia”, in Star vs. the Forces of Evil, season 1, episode 6b (in English):
  [the text below is written on-screen in large letters, once Marco reveals his "emergency cash stash"] Marco'$ emergency ca$h $ta$h
A substitute for the letter S, used as a censored or filter-avoidance spelling.
$h!t ― shit

Derived terms

money or greed

CO$ (“Church of Scientology”) (English)
Micro$oft / M$ / M$FT (“Microsoft”)
$cientology (“Scientology”) (English)

censored or filter-avoidance

@$$ (“ass”) (English)
le$bian (“lesbian”) (English)

Symbol

$ (English symbol name dollar sign)

A currency sign for the dollar, peso, and pataca.
- 2024 May 24, Susan Griffin, “How the super rich party at the Monaco Grand Prix”, in CNN‎^[3] (in English):
  Some bottles of champagne at Amber Lounge afterparties can cost €20,000 ($21,600).
- 2025 June 13, Luciana Lopez and Chris Isidore, “US Steel and Nippon Steel say Trump has approved their partnership”, in CNN Business‎^[4] (in English):
  US Steel was once a symbol of American industrial power. It was the most valuable company in the world and, soon after its 1901 creation, became the first to be worth $1 billion.
An unofficial currency sign for the escudo.
(programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, such as Perl, PHP, or 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 and centavos, e.g. 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

currency

A$ (“Australian dollar”)
AU$ (“Australian dollar”)
C$ (“córdoba; Canadian dollar”)
C$ (“Confederate dollar”) (English)
NT$ (“New Taiwan dollar”)
NZ$ (“New Zealand dollar”)
R$ (“Brazilian real”)
U$ (“United States dollar”) (English)
US$ (“United States dollar”) (English)

variable

$DEITY (“generic deity”) (English)

Related terms

References

^ Florian Cajori (1993), A history of mathematical notations‎^[1]

[1] Florian Cajori (1993), A history of mathematical notations‎^[1]

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