$

$ 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]

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

Translingual

Description

An S-shape with one or two vertical lines 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 P^S that passed through a stage resembling ֆ. It was used in the US before the adoption of the dollar in 1785.

Noun

$

1. Abbreviation of money.
   • 1954, Donald's Diary

     Uncle Ray's Loans

     We lend $$$

2. (used everywhere except in the Philippines) Abbreviation of peso.
3. Abbreviation of 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. Abbreviation of escudo.

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. (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.
2. (programming) Suffix indicating a string in BASIC.
3. (programming) Prefix indicating a hexadecimal constant in Pascal and assembly languages.
   • 1988, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor, page 45:

     On paper, simply add the carry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That's fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?

4. (computing) End of line or end of input.
5. (regular expressions) Matches the end position within the string. Compare ^, which matches the start position within the string.

   ^example$

Derived terms

• English: $DEITY

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”. When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos & centavos, 2$50.

See also

Currency signs

• ؋ – afghani
• ฿ – baht
• ¢ – cent
• ₡ – colón
• ₵ – cedi
• $ – dollar
• ₫ – dong
• ֏ - dram
• € – euro
• ƒ – florin (also called guilder and gulden)
• ₲ – guarani
• ₾ - lari

• ₴ – hryvnia
• ₭ – kip
• ₺ – lira (in Turkey)
• ₼ – manat
• ₥ – mill
• ₦ – naira
• ₱ – peso
• £ – pound
• ﷼ – riyal
• ៛ – riel
• ރ – rufiyaa

• ₽ – ruble
• ₨ – rupee
• ௹ – rupee
• ₹ – Indian rupee
• ৲ or ৳ – taka (in Bangladesh)
• ૱ – rupee (in Gujarat)
• ₪ – new shekel
• ₸ – tenge
• ₮ – tugrik
• ₩ – won
• ¥ – yen

Formerly used currency signs

• ₳ – austral
• ₠ – ECU (European Currency Unit)
• ₢ – cruzeiro
• ₯ – drachma

• ₣ – franc
• ₤ – lira
• ₶ – Livres Tournois
• ℳ – mark

• ₧ – peseta
• ₰ – pfennig
• ₷ – spesmilo