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U+20A4, ₤
LIRA SIGN

[U+20A3]
Currency Symbols
[U+20A5]

Translingual

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Symbol

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  1. Full-width lira currency symbol, used interchangeably with £ and L. as the symbol for the Italian lira.
  2. Alternative form of £; pound sign
    • 1817, James Morrison, A concise system of Commercial Arithmetic (in English), page 155:
      100 English is equal to 108,,6,,8 Irish

Usage notes

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  • Banknotes issued by the Bank of England since 1975 have used only the single bar style £ as a pound sign. The bank used both the two-bar style (₤) and the one-bar style (£) (and sometimes a figure without any symbol) more or less equally from 1725 to 1971 intermittently and sometimes concurrently.

See also

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Currency signs
  • ¤ – currency wildcard
  • ؋ – afghani
  • ฿ – baht
  • – bitcoin
  • ¢ – cent
  • – colón
  • – cedi
  • – cifrão
  • – Emirati dirham
  • $ – dollar
  • – dong
  • ֏ – dram
  • – euro
  • ƒ – florin, guilder, gulden
  • – franc
  • – guarani
  • – hryvnia
  • - Indian paisa
  • – kip
  • – lari
  • – Turkish lira
  • – manat
  • – naira
  • – Philippine peso
  • £ – pound
  • – Iranian rial
  • – Omani rial
  • – Saudi riyal
  • – riel
  • – Russian ruble
  • - Belarusian ruble
  • – rupee
  • – Indian rupee
  • – rufiyaa
  • – new shekel
  • – Kyrgyzstani som
  • – tenge
  • – tugrik, tether
  • – won
  • ¥ – yen, yuan
Language-specific currency signs
  • – Bengali taka sign
  • – Bengali rupee sign
  • – Bengali ana sign
  • – Bengali ganda sign
  • રૂ૰ – Gujarati rupee sign
  • – North Indic rupee sign
  • रू – Nepali rupee sign
  • 𞱱 – Pakistani rupee sign
  • රු – Sinhala rupee sign
  • – Tamil rupee sign
  • 𞲰 – Urdu rupee sign
  • 𞋿 (𞋿) – Wancho rupee sign
  • – yen (in Japanese)
  • – yuan (in Chinese)
  •  / – yuan (in Chinese)
Formerly used currency signs
  • 𐆚 – Roman as
  • – austral
  • – European Currency Unit
  • – cruzeiro
  • 𐆖 – Roman denarius
  • – drachma
  • - Italian lira
  • – livre tournois
  • – mark
  • – mill
  • - Nordic mark
  • – peseta
  • – pfennig
  • ℛ︁ℳ︁ – reichsmark
  • 𐆘 – Roman sesterce
  • – spesmilo
  • – old Israeli shekel